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Poetry Across Time: Character and voice Medusa

Key Language: connotation, imagery, metaphor, simile Structure and Form: stanzas, type, patterns, contrast, juxtaposition Poetic methods: alliteration, caesura, assonance, rhythm, rhyme Character and Voice: Who is speaking and to whom? Tone of voice Links: Comparisons to other speakers, methods and themes

Simile shows intensity of feelings; makes thoughts a reality.

A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy grew in my mind, which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes, as though my thoughts hissed and spat on my scalp. My brides breath soured, stank in the grey bags of my lungs. Im foul mouthed now, foul tongues, yellow fanged. There are bullet tears in my eyes. Are you terrified? Be terrified. Its you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know youll go, betray me, stray from home. So better by far for me if you were stone. I glanced at a buzzing bee, a dull grey pebble fell to the ground. I glanced at a singing bird, a handful of dusty gravel spattered down. I looked at a ginger cat, a housebrick shattered a bowl of mil. I looked at a snuffling pig, a boulder rolled in a heap of shit.

Sibilance reflects venomous thoughts and hissing of snakes how many there are.

Sarcastic tone as he does not live up to this ideal no man does for her.

Metaphor image of war reflects anger and a wish to get revenge.

Images of carefree summer days that joy is gone.

Repetition of personal pronoun she feels that she deserves to be selfish and take revenge.

Juxtaposition between the beauty of nature and the cold, hard, man Pets and buildings symbols of domestic bliss and something she craved once.

Emphasises innocence/ unsuspecting nature of the creature/men before being turned to stone

A colloquial expletive that shocks the reader and matches the feeling of the victim.

Repeated alliteration in the poem indicates that the persona is stuttering in passion and anger.

I stayed in the mirror. Love gone bad showed me a Gorgon. I stared at a dragon Fire spewed from the mouth of a mountain. And here you come with shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue and your girls, your girls. Wasnt I beautiful? Wasnt I fragrant and young? Look at me now.

Mythical creatures to be feared she means to cause as much harm as possible.

Repetition reveals bitterness as she is no longer his girl.

Reminiscent of flowers something fragile, feminine and beautiful ironic as the opposite now.

Interpretations of the Poem: A comment on how love does not always bring happiness. A lesson about what hate and jealousy can do to a person. An exploration of the mind of a spurned woman.

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