"Eat Me" by Patience Agbabi

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AS - Level English Literature (Poetry ) Mind Map on "Eat Me" by Patience Agbabi, created by sienna.a.wells on 28/01/2016.
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"Eat Me" by Patience Agbabi
  1. Connotations
    1. Consumed
      1. Cannibalism
        1. Alice in Wonderland label (intertexuality)
          1. Imperitive (forceful command)
            1. Semantic Field
              1. Water
                1. 'Beached Whale
                  1. Again abnormal, large, ungraceful creature, unnatural, pain
                    1. Beastly,, animalistic
                  2. Shipwreck
                    1. Ruin, her body is like a ruin, can't be fixed now it is broken, destructive damaging images
                    2. Tidal wave
                      1. Forceful, abnormal force of nature, large and destroys what is in its path. Unknown sense of danger
                      2. Flesh flowed
                        1. more graceful image, rippling.
                      3. Flesh, makes her sound like a piece of meat rather than a human being.
                        1. Globe of a cheek
                          1. Tidal wave of flesh
                            1. Throat
                              1. hips judder
                                1. Broad belly wobble
                            2. Pronouns
                              1. 'I' and 'his' never 'we'. Although the poem is about sex and coupling there is no intimacy expressed. First person personal pronoun
                                1. No sense of female as a person, only get the image of her of who the 'He' figure makes her out to be
                                  1. Never hear from 'her' directly , no individual identity
                                    1. 'She' doesn't blame him for her becoming fat, she has become so part of it seems normal
                                  2. Male is anonymous , the objective becomes the objectifier
                                  3. Similes
                                    1. "Hips judder like a juggernaut"
                                      1. "Watch me swell like forbidden fruit"
                                      2. Metaphors
                                        1. "I was his Jacuzzi"
                                          1. 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
                                          2. "I was a tidal wave of flesh"
                                            1. "Or a beached whale on a king-size bed."
                                              1. Large overbearing objects
                                              2. His desert island after a shipwreck."
                                                1. 'His' first person personal pronoun suggesting she belonged to him, like she is not her own person
                                                2. "His breadfruit."
                                                  1. Allusions of her size
                                                  2. Language Features
                                                    1. Alliteration
                                                      1. "Broad Belly"
                                                        1. This has the effect of the size of her
                                                      2. Emphasis of the comparative adjective "fat" by using repetition with "too"
                                                        1. Collocation
                                                          1. 'Big-Built'
                                                        2. Structure
                                                          1. Half rhyme
                                                            1. Free verse and three lines per verse
                                                              1. "shipwreck" "bed"
                                                              2. Enjamberment at the start in the third stanza, shows continuous feeding
                                                                1. Sezura, deliberate making of the cake, deliberate "gift" not for her but for him
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