Eat Me by Agbabi

Eat Me by Agbabi

Tone/Attitude
1. power of poem lies in voice of narrator
2. active agency contrasts with subservience
3. pressure of society upon a woman
Structure/Form
1. cloying sound - sensitised to mouth and tongue
2. use of consonance on each corresponding line
  1. k first line, d second, t third
3. doesn't comfortably rhyme - sense of claustrophobia and uncertainty
4. strict form represents stirct regime within relationship
Ideas
1. female body in the servitude of man
2. relationship between feeder and feedee to explore issues of gender and power
3. sexual politics between male and female - patriarchal power
4. downfall of humanity
Techniques
1. semantic field of colonial power being taken over by original inhabitants
  1. former colony wishes to break free from colonial authority and acquire complete freedom
2. audacious dramatic monologue - single narrator addresses silent auditor at critical moment - reveals themselves dramatically
3. white and pink, juxtapose pallet, disturbing theme
4. visceral - 'masses of cellulite'
5. zoomorphic
'didn't even taste it'
1. absolute compliance and subservience, no pleasure derived from it - altruistic act
'soft girls'
1. first hand experience of dominant personality, something he can control/mould
'my cook'
1. not her own provider. her master
'globe'
1. her globe his world; her world define by her size

Resource summary

	Created by Lauren Bradford about 7 years ago