IOP HELP on Grace Nichols "Invitation"

[meerameerameera]

OKAY so! I am doing Literature HL, and I have to do my IOP (internal oral presentation) in a couple of days. I spoke to my teacher and she said that if I want to get a 7 (I really need it!) I need to think of new original ideas on the topic. So I chose to look at Invitation by grace nichols, I already have an idea but i need some help developing it. 

 

In my analysis I spoke about how she sexualises the fat black woman and challenges the stereotypes associated with being a fat black woman. In the end I wanted to talk about how this can be seen as a political act - Was written in 1980 for context... so this was an idea that my teacher gave me and she said if I develop it well it can really help my presentation! I AM so confused though about the whole political act.. so PLEASE help me develop that idea. Here is the poem- 

 

 

 

Invitation

 
1
If my fat
was too much for me
I would have told you
I would have lost a stone
or two

 

I would have gone jogging
even when it was fogging
I would have weighed in
sitting the bathroom scale
with my tail tucked in

I would have dieted
more care a diabetic

But as it is
I’m feeling fine
feel no need
to change my lines
when I move I’m target light

Come up and see me sometime

2
Come up and see me sometime
Come up and see me sometime

My breasts are huge exciting
amnions of water melon
    your hands can’t cup
my thighs are twin seals
    fat as slick pups
there’s a purple cherry
below the blues
    of my black seabelly
there’s a mole that gets a ride
each time I shift the heritage
of my behind

Come up and see me sometime

 

 

 

thank you guys!!