![]() So, her focusing on the schoolteacher's strength shows Mrs. When the physical aspects of Lazarus started to vanish her love started to slowly fade away also. Lazarus often considers love to be a very physical thing which is shown through her grieving process. In this line, the sense of touch is used. LInes 22-23: "the shock of a man's strength under the sleeve of his coat" Lazarus enjoying herself walking in the park or in the market with her lover and through that we can almost feel the emotions of happiness and relief that she would be feeling. Duffy lets the reader's imagination go wild so that we can really see Mrs. ![]() Through imagery we can imagine the shift from her state of horrible grief to her beautiful state of joy. Lazarus has moved on but it shows that she has found new love. Not only does this solidify the fact that Mrs. Line 22: "my arm on the arm of the school teacher" The fact that Lazarus was vanishing shows how his physical essence that was torturing Mrs. Lazarus's referring to Lazarus leaving her life in this way shows how the emotional connection is gone and all that is life is a material thing left by Lazarus. The "small zero" refers to the diamond on a wedding ring. Lines 19-20: "See, he was vanishing to the small zero held by the gold of my ring."Īgain, this line shows Lazarus's physical being vanishing from Mrs. This creates the effect of the long length of time it took for Mrs. The internal rhyme and assonance with 'scent" and "went" seems to make a mirroring effect to how scent lingers in a room. Also, the physical sense of Lazarus's being is focused on hence the use of personification to make the scent almost seem like a human leaving the house. Lazarus losing Lazarus's scent solidifies her grieving coming to an end. Since smell is considered a memorable and strong sense Mrs. The fact that Lazarus's scent is leaving is symbolic of Mrs.Lazarus finally being able to move on. Out of the five senses we have smell is considered one of the strongest. (Other techniques include personification, internal rhyme, assonance and symbolism) Line 18: "His scent went from the house." Definition: Sensory imagery is the technique where you provide an imagery that relates to one of the five senses: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and olfactory. ![]()
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