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what style is the poem written in
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dramatic monologue
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first appears to address...
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to address the man who jilted her
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'beloved sweetheart bastard'
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what contrasting ideas are combined in the line 'beloved sweetheart bastard'
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love and hate.
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violent 'b' sounds
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does the addressee stay the same throughout the poem?
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by the end, speaker abandons direct address.
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'a male corpse' implies generalised hatred of male sex
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what is significant about the final line?
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implies that language itself has broken down for the speaker
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'don't think it's just the heart that b-b-b-breaks'
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