ENGLISH LIT

4. The speaker claims their touch is this, compared to others
8. The type of violence hinted at with “hail of kisses of stone”
10. Cold, aggressive violation or a metaphor for the final assault
13. The word describing the men’s actions, implying selfishness and desire
14. Literary device contrasting the man’s view of the woman with the speaker’s
20. In line 41, their gaze turns inward in this kind of shift
21. label the speaker gives to the man, often associated with religious sermons
22. The woman in the biblical allusion was accused of this
23. "Beautiful, but dead scared" describes this emotion the woman feels

1. Feminist themes often explored in Mitchell’s poetry
2. The moral justification for the mob's brutality
3. Discrimination against women, a rising issue in 1970s England
5. Scottish-born poet who moved to Somerset
6. The tone at the end of the poem, hinting at self-awareness and sorrow
7. Phrase the speaker uses to downplay the abuse: "We ___ her up"
9. Device used in “God-knows-what”
11. A more serious word for “roughed up” — what actually happened
12. The word used to refer to a woman involved in sexual acts, as implied by the speaker
15. The act of judging and punishing without mercy
16. The speaker implies the woman deserves no human ____
17. Line 11 hints this wasn’t the woman’s first experience of violence
18. The poet worked in this role during WWII, organizing library materials
19. The disturbing comparison of violence to this commonly associated with love