cockroach

1.The title mean's the insect cockroach and after the poem it more of a disgusting creature.

2.I know that the speaker of the poem(Anne Sexton) dislikes the insect very much, shes disgusted by the name. she calls it the ugliest and if you lied to god his wrath turned you into a cockroach.

3.In the poem she talks about religion and how one time she had a experience with a cockroach and it fled across the floor and she shrieked and the girl picked it up in her hands and held it like a diamond ring.

4.the speakers attitude towards the subject is hatred and disgust, she feels feared at some points in the poem. She considers the roach as foulest of creatures. "you are lumps of coal that are mechanized."

5. The dramatic moment is when she is comparing it to the size of a shoe, which isn't physically possible, the purpose of the author's poem is mostly everyone agrees on this point with roaches. Shes speaking up so people can agree with her and say "oh yea im scared of them too"

6.There are a couple memorable figurative language and sound devices, there's a derisive tone because she's mocking the roach by describing it to a lump of coal, which also fills under the tone ridiculing. She has a callous tone towards the roaches.

7. The poem doesn't represent repetition or rhyme. its just straight forward about how she doesn't like roaches.

8."your uncle was made into and apple, your aunt was made into a Siamese cat, all the rest were made into butterflies but because you lied to god out rightly-- told him that all things on earth were in order- he turned his wrath upon you and said, I will make you the most loathsome, I will make you into God's lie, and never will a little girl fondle you or hold your dark wings cupped in her palm.” The line is very important because it involves religion and what she believes the roaches were made about. How roaches are made because of a punishment from God.

9.The notable shifts in the poem are when she goes on talking about religion in the second stanza from hate to glimpse of love, and how she talks about her real life experience with the roach and friends.

10. I can connect to them poem because I feel the same way with snakes and spiders. I related to the line, “fled across the floor and I shrieked.” Every time I see a spider crawl near me I yelp or run away.