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