Miss Gee

The story is told through ...

1. The form of the poem is written as a ballad 
2. The rhyming pattern is A,B,C,B which is a traditional rhyming pattern scheme, again could this be to symbolise how often this happens. 
3. The poem is written like a children's story or nursery rhyme.
4. The poem is written in 1st person 
5. The context of this story is about a women called Edith Gee, a religious spinster who gets cancer,dies and then is dissected for medical research. 
6. The narrator writes in a very objective way - they are very detached and show no emotions towards Miss Gee or the events that befall her. 
7. Their is a number of multiple voices in the play including Miss Gee, the doctor and his wife and Mr Rose. This helps create a number of views in the play. 
8. The poem is quite funny and has comedic lines throughout the poem (black humor)
9. The poem could have many themes, religion and science, death, loneliness and the general stereotype of spinsters - personally I think the theme is religion.
10. The religious references are a significant part of the poem for instance Miss Gee "knelt down on her knees" and later has her knees cut off, she sees the vicars face in her dreams and that the Vicar of Saint Aloysius asked her to dance. 
11. There are many sexual connotations throughout the play for instance "loving couples", " charging with lowered horn" and the word "bust." When she prays to god to make her a "good girl" is she acknowledging her lustful thoughts? 
12. The stanza's represent time passing and lines 38-39 emphasis this "Summer made the trees a picture, Winter made them a wreck." This could also show that everything has its time and everything dies eventually.
13. The repetition of "buttoned up to her neck" and the imagery of her cycling on her bike, helps the audience to create an image of her and understand her personality.