By Henry and Rachel IB HL Language and Literature
Havisham - Carol Ann Duffy
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Havisham
Beloved sweetheart bastard
.
Not a day
since then
I haven't wished him
dead
,
Prayed
for it
so hard I've
dark green pebbles
for eyes,
ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with
.
Spinster
.
I stink and remember
.
Whole
days
in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall
;
the dress
yellowing
, trembling if I
open
the
wardrobe
;
the slewed mirror
, full-length,
her, myself, who did this
to me?
Puce
curses that are sounds not words
.
Some nights better, the lost body over me
,
my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear
then down till I suddenly bite awake
.
Love's
hate behind a white veil
;
a red balloon bursting
in my face.
Bang.
I
stabbed
at a
wedding-cake
.
Give me a
male corpse
for a
long slow
honeymoon
.
Don't think it's only the heart that
b-b-b-breaks
.
Dramatic Monologue of "Havisham"