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Carol Ann Duffy- Mrs Lazarus Analysis

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EMPHASIS ESSENCE of POEM
T
BRIEF
t SHORT
Past
longer grieving
no
Estense 's:*
c-
LEXICAL FIELD
MONOSYLLABIC
HARSH
of
↳
onomatopoeia
REFLECTS SOUNDS
↳
Gives
SOB
of
possessive
PHONOLOGICAL
a
the
IMAGE to
grief
G,
Happy
←
OF
ALLITERATIVE
,
←
l
Swhifhfoeuetsherhatufgabpanedson
/
←
AUTHORS
REFLECTS
BRING
PERSONAS
←
OUT
"
←
"
sounds
-
HARSH
[
begin
until
←
ECHOES
she
A. C
LONGING
[ LONG
→
MEMORIES
"
to
belonged
+
husband
misses
to
were
→
I
DUFFY
@
"
She is WEARING
HIM
to
↳
↳ Trying
become
instead
going , going
then he was
of
to make
gone
"
. . .
I
gorge
(next > stanza 5
)
comedic purpose
herself WHOLE AGAIN
*
CYEASORA
EMPHASISES
'
going
'
EMPHASISES
'
going
the
'
→
impeding
phase
through
pain
of
GRIEVE LESS
TO
of
one
grief
her
grief
JESUS
despite
He is
her
→
O
icon of her
sees the
Christ its Her Face
↳ FORESHADOWING
ENJAMBEMENT
→
invented
or
IBEGAN
REPETITION
plastic
t
hadn't been
face in the mirror she sees
,
passing
-
didn't
men
suits
him
]
"
the time
Poetic LISCENCE
SEXUAL FRUSTRATION
7
←
him
pair
/
#
'
POETRY MOTIF
is
missing
BEREAVEMENT
-
µ
MONOSYLLABIC SOUNDS ←
DUFFY 'S
C-
a
is USING
Each time she
time
FADING
→
him
wear
↳
Trying
Foreshadows next sentence
t
accept his death
DEATH t
ANACHRONISM
←
him
1-
ANACHRONISM
d
(
→
LEXICAL FIELD
to
*
* AUCTIONER
coz her
→
÷
anachronism
.
VOWELS
difficulty
shows her
→
-
300
STATIONS of the CROSS "
>
Reflects Loss
PHONOLOGY
VULNERABILITY I
STRANGLED
f ALLUSION
"
"
\
her
=
processing
t
suffocating
monastic movement diane
T
r
glove
-
sadness
Bring empathy
to reader
DENIAL
:
grief
"
*
of
✓
She is still
JONE -7
BED
-
LANGUAGE
→
CONTRAST
onoramaticah.IT#
←
of
SMALL
\,
-
\#
EMPHASIS
FEELINGS
para og
W
FIRST STAGE
She
-
-
#
Like
← ALLITERATIVE
grief
Testaments of
*
0
l
y
signs
New
T
/
pain
sentences
t
ALLITERATION
caesura
←
reflect stabs
reference to old
-
↳ EMPHASIS
sensation
of pain in her
tiredness
'
READER
suggested
"
/
#
VERBS
Grieving
Biblical
-
Jewish.ae?::nrninsc-
←
.
PLUPERFECT
-
leaving
thoughts
MENTAL
PICTURE
→
no
LONGER has
HOLD
OVER
HER
I
✓
PREPARING HERSELF for him to be
gone
→
ALLUSION
to
Matthew 10:30
+
widow
seeking
(
NEW
sell
HUSBAND
herself
→
Sexual REFERENCE
µ
REFERENCE
)
to
EVERYTHING
FADES
BIBLE 2
t
BOSSINESS
like
-
ANACHRONISM
✓
memories
of
LAZARUS
were
bound
to end
.
f
-
MODERN
→
-
She is
I
but now
accepting
t
first signified
-
-
O
LOVE FOR
ETERNITY
his
death
1-3
BRIEF
IN
HURRY
a
move
to
T
longer
grieving
no
←
REPETITION
+
marks
Story
DIFFERENT STAGES of the
ALLITERATION
v
-
→
a
-
c-
Eroticism
implies
/
T
*
t
COMPRESS
t
Auction
on
EMPHASIS
PREMONITION
of what her
husband
become
might
-
-
→
implies RESPECTABILITY
STATUS
t
c-
that Mrs Lazarus
schoolteacher
sex
=
←
Poetic LISCENCE #
t
she has
moved
JUSTIFIABLY
on
to
Mrs
is
live
begin
←
again
Lazarus
-
SHORT
t
IMPACTFUL
→
signifies
healing
←
COMFORT
uplifting
mood
→
found
inner peace
T
+
She has
WARMTH
TRADITIONALLY
SYMBOL Y SES
+
refers to
LIFE
t
INTERSPERSING
→
PROCREATION
LINE
[
REBIRTH
with
men
wouldn't
SWEATT
-
-S
-
I
-
surprised
UNSYMPATHETIC
SUSPENSE
EMPATHIC
T
¢
impact
q
FUL
CAESURA
SHORT
t
y
outcome
grief
by COMMOTION
EXCITEMENT I
sums up
of her
is UPSET
have
#
she is
Humorous
horses
own
implies
,
-
→ PEACE
ANACHRONISM
CYNICAL
Lyricism
c-
stanza I
his LOSS
with another
.
=
SHE HAD GONE
MAD with
- to see his wife
REFLECTS first sentence in ←
DECOMPOSED
LEXICAL FIELD
←
BODY
#
HE is
NOT
WANTED
←
METONYMY
→
GRAVE
represents
DEATH
in the WORLD of the
-
Living
ARCHAIC
For
an
a
men
t
WORD
SAD
with
unfaithful wife
DEATH has
ENDING
"
.
"
chewing
been
his
body
I
SLACK
→
Process is
SLOW
DESOLTURY
but UN EVITABLE
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