Questions on 'Bitcherel' by Eleanor Brown

Questions on Bitcherel 1) What is the play on words of the title? 2) What is the general tone of the poem? 3) Comment on the poet’s use of the word ‘acquisition’ in stanza one. 4) Why is ‘friends’ in stanza one inside quotation marks? 5) What kind of insults does the poet express towards her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend throughout the course of the poem? 6) Comment on the image of the new girlfriend as ‘chilli con carne without any chilli’. 7) What is your opinion of the speaker of the poem? 8) Do you think the boyfriend has made a good or a bad choice in exchanging the old girlfriend for the new? Explain why.