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THE ERL-KING FEMALE OBJECTIFICATION
- "the little cages in which he keeps his singing birds"
- "he lays me down on his rustling straw where I lie at the mercy of his huge hands"
- "He is the tender butcher who showed me how the price of flesh is love"
- "skin the rabbit, he says! Off come all my clothes."
- "those silly, fat, trusting woodies with the pretty wedding rings round their necks"
- "looking there makes me giddy, as if I might fall into it"
- "looking there makes me giddy, as if I might fall into it"
- "the sweetest singers he will keep in cages"
- "You sink your teeth into my throat and make me scream"
- "You sink your teeth into my throat and make me scream"
- "I fall down for him"
- "I lie down on the Erl-King's creaking palliasse of straw"
- "I was the perfect child of the meadows of the summer"
- "He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water"
- "His touch both consoles and devastates me"
- "I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip away the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me...its capacity for drowning"
- "He spreads out a goblin feast of fruit for me"
- "I lie above him and see the light from the fire sucked into the black vortex of his eye...that exerts on me such a tremendous pressure, it draws me inwards"
- "The gelid green of your eyes fixes my reflective face...it catches me"
- "He winds me into the circle of his eye on a reel of birdsong"
- "Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I will become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish" "
- "I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss I liberty"
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