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By referring closely to [Mrs Midas], and to at least one other poem by…

- - - - "look at me now" - this short sentence has several potential meanings. 1) she wants her husband to literally look at her so she can get her revenge and kill him, highlighting her change in identity from a loving wife to a betrayed enraged monster 2. she is seeking sympathy, and asking her husband or the audience to look at her to highlight her life-changing shift in appearance and overall identity, in an attempt to cope 3). she could be asserting her newfound authority by commanding her husbands to look at her, highlighting her life-changing tranformation
      - "I glanced.. I looked... I stared" - Medusa's gaze dramatically intensifies, showing her progressive loss of normality in her life, showing her life-changing shift towards isolation
      - "my bride's breath soured" - self-deteriorating image - Medusa, who was one young and beautiful, now sees herself as foul and monstrous. The shift from the image of the 'bride' to 'soured breath' significies as life-changing loss of identity and innocence. It reflects her cope from her life-changing betrayal
      - "turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes" - shows Medusa's emotional change transferring into a physical change, where her thoughts become toxic and consuming, reflecting how powerful emtotions can warp self-identity and image, highglighting her copwe with her life-changing situation
- - - - "commas into exclamation mark" Metaphor mirrors their growth and transition into adulthood
      - "you kicked him" short sentence suggest her disbelief and fear of the unknown, and transition into adulthood. word choice empahises the agression and violence in her acts in attempt to cope with this new unkown knowledge, showing that she is still clinging on to her childishness
      - " you ran through the gates, impatient to be grown" parenthesis emphasises the speakers emotions and that she just wants the growth to be complete, she wants to be an adult as soon as possible, which is her own way of coping with the limbo period, between child and adult.
      - "You asked her how you were born." when faced with the challenges of growth and learning the unknown, she trurns to mrs tilcher becuase she want to be the one to break the knews to her
- - - - "I stink and remember" - highlights her inability to disassociate herself from the past, referring back to the life-changing events
      - 'Beloved sweetheart bastard" - use of oxymoron reveals her conflicted attemps to cope with her trauma. The use of juxtaposition shows how she cannot move on, and her coping mechanism is emotional fixation rather than acceptance. The life-changing betrayal has fractured her identity
      - "whole days in bed cawing noooo at the wall" - suggests that Havisham's coping mechanism is self-isolation and withdrawal from society. "cawing" has animal-like connotations, showing her life-changing jilting has changed her identity into a primal like monster
      - "Not a day since then, I haven't wished him dead" - she copes by sustaining her anger over time. "not a day since then" - permanence of the event. Instead of moving on and accepting the jilting, she reorts to violent fantasies to cope.