Pop Corpse

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Analysis of the Limitless Boundaries of Pop Corpse “A fairy tell, a popular tale, a pop tale, a dead tale, a pop corpse. A rotting version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid” (Applegate 1). Laura Glenum’s Pop Corpse is a sort of poetry where boundaries are limitless. It takes a fairy tell like The Little Mermaid and completely twists it around as expressed in David Applegate’s review of the poem. The work includes a character that has a forced identity and struggles with her purpose in the world. This character is XXX. She struggles throughout the whole poem with accepting who she is and tries to change her female role throughout the series of poems. There are many motives that drive XXX throughout the work, but none as important …show more content…

“Turns on webcam. Opens her cutting box and takes out a scalpel. Carefully cuts a hole into her scales where her snatch should be. Lubes her finger with her spit and inserts it” (Glenum 51). Here the audience is presented with a situation where XXX the main character, decides she has had enough with her set identity and wants to change it. She is given a gender in which she is a female, but doesn’t have female parts. She redefines the norm of accepting what you are given, and creates a new form of the female gender, rather than accepting the mermaid gender that she is presented with in the text. This adventure for pleasure by XXX also shows Glenum’s view on the women’s mindset. “I lost my strap-on + I’m hot hot for the Smear” (Glenum 94). All XXX really wants throughout Glenum’s work is sex and pleasure as seen through this quote. In the real world, it tends to be the males who search for this continuous pleasure. However, in Pop Corpse, Glenum has reversed the typical societal view on gender roles and instead places this sex drive and search for pleasure on XXX. In her work, Glenum crosses gender boundaries and switches gender roles. Throughout the text, Glenum uses a character who is on a quest for pleasure to challenge the acceptable Gender norms of society

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