Mrs Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar but one dissatisfied with his life who makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.  

Form of Poem

• 9 lines
• 15 stanzas
• Length of Lines: 3 syllables-12 syllables
• Free verse poem
• Fast-moving rhythm
• Slant Rhyme (abrupt and snappy like her life)eg. “Then take his lust/ to Soho in cab,/ to say the least,/ lay the ghost,”
• End Rhyme and Full Rhymeeg.“way”, “day”, “hay” 
• Internal Rhyme
  eg. "returned enlightened" 

                Tone of Poem

          •Mocking Tone

            eg. “had a facelift,/ had my breast enlarged,/ my buttocks tightened;/ went to China, Thailand, Africa returned enlightened.”

         •Sarcastic and Ironic Tone

         •Verbal Irony: “Faust was Cardinal, Pope,/knew more than God;”

        •Situational Irony: “I bought a kidney/ with my credit card”