ENGL 102W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reverse Engineering
31 Oct 2015
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Define the source & apply it to the target = evidence. Heretic diction: again, the implications that come with heretic: the witch craze burned all the heretics (those who didn"t follow the norm, who sets the norm? (cid:0) mainly the church. In the same way that witches were cleansed of their evil spirits the speaker will cleanse another entity her body through self denial. Yes i am torching her curves and paps and wiles. They scorch in my self denials: target: self denial, she eliminates her female characteristics (womanhood) through starvation, she doesn"t eat to cleanse herself. Conceit in the first part of poem: anorexic body understood in terms of witch"s body at the height of the renaissance witchcraft. &, she was disobedient, greedy for knowledge, for food, immediate satisfaction, she was the original sin, it was because of her mankind was doomed.
