Oxymoron - shows her conflicted emotions over her lost love - think Word choice - connotations

Character from “Great

line between love and hate. Plosives to create a harsh, spiteful tone. of desperation - shows just
Expectations” - only
how much she want to hurt
her maiden name -
him.
reminder of being
Inversion - shows her strongly negative
jilted.
feelings - hatred has consumed her and
Havisham she is committed to hurting him. Metaphor - veins on her hands
due to her age or clenching -
Metaphor - pebbles
are small and hard - link to hanging - wants to cause
her eyes have shrunk him harm.
from being inside with Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then
no light. Green has I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it Word choice - wants to
connotations of
jealousy - she is so hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes, cause harm - has violent
thoughts about the one
jealous of those who
are happy. ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with. she once loved.

Enjambment - amount of
Word choice of
time spent reflecting on it.
One word sentence - Short sentence - to show how little she “yellowing”
spat out. Reflects the does. Doesn’t care for her appearance as suggests decay,
fact that she is bitter she spends her time dwelling on memories. Onomatopoeia - shows growing old -
about being forever extent of her distress. shows how long
known as this. This is she has been
all she sees herself as. Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days isolated and
in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress dwelling on this
for.
Word choice -
connotations of
yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;
animalistic - suggests the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this Doesn’t recognise
she has lost her herself anymore - in a
humanity and is state of confusion.
Word choice - Word choice suggests weakness,
anguished.
connotations of vulnerability - could be her current
distortion - reflects her distressed state or her thinking the dress Enjambment to pause
image of her old self. is moving. Sign of mental instability. to reflect on the state
Purple - anger flooding of her now. She’s
her face while changed so much and
swearing. to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words. can’t quite believe it.
Some nights better, the lost body over me,
Fantasising about So angry she can’t form words -
being with him again my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear animalistic image again.
sexually.
then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love’s
Enjambment/
Word choice - connotations of agility - Dehumanising him - Dreams of emasculating oxymoron to highlight
being well practised - she dreams of he has just become a him - waking up to the the thin line between
this and what could have been a lot. sexual object. harsh reality that she is no these and how she
longer with him. went quickly from one
Plosives to create to the other.
harsh tone - balloon
symbolises their love/ hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting
Violent connotations -
relationship blowing in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding cake. usually something the
up and ending couple does together.
suddenly. Short Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon. Shows how bitter she is.
sentence to create
sudden shock. Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.
Threat to end the poem -
plosives to create harsh
Reference to death
tone. She could be either
and the fact he is just Themes
a body to her now - Carol Ann Duffy * Love
angry or breaking down
emotionally at the end.
threatening. * Loss Instability is emphasised.
* Revenge Similar to beginning of
poem.