'Eat Me' - Patience Agbabi
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- Created on: 13-03-18 17:54
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- 'Eat Me' - Patience Agbabi
- IMAGERY
- Water imagery
- Develops the readers understanding of narrator's exaggerated weight
- Could be seen to be her power and her tool for control in the close
- "tidal wave of flesh" of the "beached whale"
- "he drowned"
- Allusion to religion and media
- "forbidden fruit"
- Allusion to the story of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis
- Foreshadows the sinister and evil nature of the relationship in the poem
- "Too fat"
- "...the letters were pink, they said, eat me"
- Could allude to media and film e.g. Alice in Wonderland?
- Reflects her obedient nature as she "did what [she] was told"
- "forbidden fruit"
- Imagery of food
- Demonstrates the narrator's constant thoughts around food and the inescapable nature of it
- "olive oil down my throat"
- "...cake, three layers of icing"
- Could be argued that imagery of food could reflect how the male uses food to control her
- Water imagery
- STRUCTURE
- Very rigid structure - emphasises the controlling nature of the male over the narrator
- Some of the structure breaks after the death of the male, accentuating the narrator's newfound yet doubtful independence
- Break in structure (stanza 6)
- Lack of full stop at the end of the stanza
- Agbabi uses the establish the quickening of the pace in progression
- Pace increases as tone changes to resentful in the narrator
- Faces up to taboos around society about weight and uses belligerent tone to attack societal norms and labels
- Consistent use of full stops at the end of each stanza
- Reinforces the idea of control in the male character
- Two full stops used in last stanza
- Increases dramatic tension as the male character is "drowned"
- Signifies the end of male control and their overall unhealthy relationship
- Very rigid structure - emphasises the controlling nature of the male over the narrator
- LANGUAGE
- Male speech is suggestive and puts readers in sense of unease
- Uses the male to highlight manipulative control and to provoke an uncomfortable atmosphere
- Alliteration of the narrator's body is used
- Alliteration helps emphasise the narrator's weight
- "broad belly" and "judder like a juggernaut"
- "Bigger the better"
- Possessive language
- Use of "he" and "his"
- Objectifies the female narrator
- "his Jacuzzi"
- Emhasises the male domination in the poem
- Male speech is suggestive and puts readers in sense of unease
- FORM
- Poem made up of ten tercets
- Rigid form helps link to the idea of control and conformity
- Irregular rhyme scheme allows Patience to break away from the conventional rhyme scheme
- Reinforces the idea of her attack on society and taboos
- Rigid form of poem although lack of rigidity in rhyme scheme
- Irregular rhyme scheme allows Patience to break away from the conventional rhyme scheme
- Reinforces the idea of her attack on society and taboos
- Irregular rhyme scheme allows Patience to break away from the conventional rhyme scheme
- Poem made up of ten tercets
- IMAGERY
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