Zusammenfassung der Ressource
"Eat Me" by
Patience Agbabi
- Connotations
- Consumed
- Cannibalism
- Alice in Wonderland
label (intertexuality)
- Imperitive (forceful
command)
- Semantic
Field
- Water
- 'Beached
Whale
- Again abnormal, large,
ungraceful creature,
unnatural, pain
- Beastly,, animalistic
- Shipwreck
- Ruin, her body is like a
ruin, can't be fixed now it
is broken, destructive damaging images
- Tidal wave
- Forceful, abnormal force
of nature, large and
destroys what is in its
path. Unknown sense of
danger
- Flesh flowed
- more
graceful
image,
rippling.
- Flesh, makes her sound like a piece
of meat rather than a human
being.
- Globe of a cheek
- Tidal wave of flesh
- Throat
- hips judder
- Broad belly wobble
- Pronouns
- 'I' and 'his' never 'we'. Although the
poem is about sex and coupling there is
no intimacy expressed. First person
personal pronoun
- No sense of female as a
person, only get the image of
her of who the 'He' figure
makes her out to be
- Never hear from 'her' directly ,
no individual identity
- 'She' doesn't blame him for her
becoming fat, she has become so
part of it seems normal
- Male is anonymous , the
objective becomes the
objectifier
- Similes
- "Hips judder like a
juggernaut"
- "Watch me
swell like
forbidden fruit"
- Metaphors
- "I was his Jacuzzi"
- Declarative in the past tense
shown in the past tense verb
"was" which shows this
domination is a thing of the
past demonstrated in the end
of the poem and his implied
death
- "I was a tidal wave of flesh"
- "Or a beached whale
on a king-size bed."
- Large overbearing objects
- His desert island
after a shipwreck."
- 'His' first person personal
pronoun suggesting she belonged
to him, like she is not her own
person
- "His breadfruit."
- Allusions of her size
- Language Features
- Alliteration
- "Broad Belly"
- This has the effect of the
size of her
- Emphasis of the comparative adjective "fat" by
using repetition with "too"
- Collocation
- 'Big-Built'
- Structure
- Half rhyme
- Free verse and
three lines per
verse
- "shipwreck" "bed"
- Enjamberment at the start in the
third stanza, shows continuous
feeding
- Sezura,
deliberate
making of the
cake, deliberate
"gift" not for her
but for him