Eat Me

• Eat me Title


  Imperative, command, sexually provocative, illustrative of consent, power dynamic of relationship
• Devices


  ‘I rolled and he drowned/in my flesh’, enjambment
• Devices


  • Biblical allusion ‘like forbidden fruit’, female blame for sin, sexual imagery, objectifies, exoticism

  ‘craving a wave’, assonance reinforces frustration
• Structure


  Chronological Structure

  Use of direct quotations between tonal shifts

  Ends with death of the man
• Tone


  Factual,

  10 stanzas

  3 lines

  Dramatic monologue
• Tone


  Factual

  Mournful

  frustrated

  triumphant
• "I'm not your wife" - This line highlights the lack of commitment or emotional attachment that exists between the two characters.