Standing Female Nude

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Standing Female Nude. This poem is written in first person by the narrator. There are four stanza's with seven lines in each stanza, I think this shows structure and boredom which mirrors the narrators life that she has to do the same things all the time for money. We can see the narrator is a female because of the title and when she says 'belly nipple arse'. In the first line we see that she is in France due to the fact the she will be paid in francs. We can also tell that she is working class because she has has to work and do jobs like this to make a living. She thinks nothing of being nude because she just says 'belly nipple arse' as if it is a normal thing. She tells us that he drains the colour from her, this could mean that he is draining the light from her, changing her into something she is not. He orders her around and tells her what to do as if he is higher than her. The narrator uses onomatopoeia to express how people will react when they see this picture that she has modelled for. She does not see the art in what she or he is doing which shows that she could be looking down on herself for what she is doing and possibly doesn’t want to be doing it. In the second stanza we see that she is poor because she say that she is worried about where her next meal is coming from. She sounds as if she is judgemental about herself because she says 'my breasts hang'. She imagines her future because she reads her tea leaves and says that the Queen will gaze on her shape, personally I think it is to make her self feel better about the possibility's of doing this job. She says it makes her laugh, I think she is self deprecating. There is a gap between 'his name' and 'is Georges' as if she has to take a moment because she finds it funny, or it means something. The ways she has put 'they tell me he's a genius' because she says 'they think' not just 'he is'. She
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