Poems of a decade!

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  • Created by: LilyIM
  • Created on: 23-06-17 22:31

Eat me

  • Dramatic monologue 
  • The relationship between 'feeder' and 'feedee' explores gender issues and power.
  • Language such as 'Forbidden fruit' 'breadfruit' 'desert island' 'globe' 'tidal wave' suggest a post-colonial viewpoint in which colonial authority (the male) is overpowered by the power of the previous colony.
  • Alliteration, assonance, and repetition create a cloying sensuousness which mirrors the excess described.
  •   Rhyme/ half-rhyme creates a sense of claustrophobia.
  • Ending comments on what consumption leads to. 

Link to Map women about the female body. 

Chainsaw versus the Pampas grass

Chainsaw and the Pampas grass personified. 

Adjectives and imagery present Chainsaw as traditionally male and Pampas grass as female.

In the end, the Pampas grass flourishes, whereas the Chainsaw is reduced to impotence. 

Struggle between man-made and natural. Hinted as in the last two stanza's language changes from conversational to lyrical tone 'daylight moon' and historical/contextual 'corn in Egypt' 'count back across time'. 

Narrator's persona a more passive male (beta). 

Conversational with a mix of long/short sentences, relaxed line, and stanza length and informal tone 'knocked back' etc.  

But also has rich imagery and extensive use of sound such by using rhyme, alliteration, and assonance to convey emotion. 

Personal poem link with Lammas Hireling or Inheritance. The significance of narrator personae. 

Material

  • Tightly rhymed poem.
  • Hanky invokes childhood memories.
  • Vivid detail takes us back to narrator's childhood and explores the relationship with her mother. 
  • Moves from the past to present to explore her own role as a mother, and how motherhood has changed. 
  • The title refers to generational issues such as what the hankies actually made of (so different from modern disposable tissues) and how we are shaped by our mothers and shape out children in turn. 'Raw materials' in connoted in the title, nurturing shapes us. 
  • Nostalgic the lost world, but also criticizes past and social constraints. 
  • Regular rhyme scheme 'abcbdefe' suggests a more

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