One of the definitions of "bosom" at says the word represents something intimate or close, like a relationship. The verse says the beggar is carried to "Abraham's bosom." But what does this phrase mean? It also does not say the rich man, immediately upon death, was tossed into some eternal Hell. Now note what verse 22 does NOT say! It does NOT state that the beggar went to heaven. Lazarus is "helped by God" to Abraham while the well-off man is still buried and lies in his grave. In time both the beggar and the wealthy man die. And the rich man also died and was buried (verse 22). Now it came to pass that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom. He, however, is so callused regarding the human condition that he won't even let the beggar eat his trash! In stark contrast we have a rich man (symbolic of the Pharisees) whose house Lazarus is placed in front of. Lazarus, because of the depth of his plight, was willing to eat food trash since the wealthy person of the parable would not help him AT ALL. Note that Lazarus was in so desperate a need that he desired to eat (but did NOT get) the food scraps that fell on the floor (Luke 16:21). He is portrayed as having no one that could or would help him - he was entirely on his own and had nothing. This beggar was what we today would call a street person who had become terminally ill. The irony here is that those who truly believed they served and represented God would not help someone "whom God helps." They disdained someone whom God accepted. They also despised others, especially sinners and tax collectors (see Luke 18:9 - 14). The Pharisees prided themselves on their righteousness through strict obedience to their interpretation of God's law. Learn more about Duffy in this biography from the Poetry Foundation.Why did Christ refer to this poor beggar as Lazarus? The meaning of his name is "assistance of God" or "whom God helps." Lazarus" was published, by the writer Jeaneatte Winterson. A Guardian review written of Duffy's fifth collection of poetry, in which "Mrs. A video explaining the history of the dramatic monologue, a form Duffy uses in many of her poems (including this one!). Learn more about the story that inspired Duffy's poem. An interview with Duffy for the Lincoln Review in which she talks about how she started writing poems for this collection. The words are listed in the order in which they appear in the poem.ĭuffy Discusses the Genesis of The World's Wife Select any word below to get its definition in the context of the poem. Line 9: “black,” “bags,” “shuffled,” “dead,” “shoes”.Line 8: “dust,” “Stuffed,” “dark,” “suits”.Line 6: “Gone,” “Gutted,” “Slept,” “single”.Lines 38-40: “my bridegroom in his rotting shroud, / moist and dishevelled from the grave's slack chew, / croaking his cuckold name, disinherited, out of his time.”.Lines 32-35: “I knew by the sly light / on the blacksmith's face, the shrill eyes / of the barmaid, the sudden hands bearing me / into the hot tang of the crowd parting before me.”.Line 31: “behind them the women and children, barking dogs,”.Line 21: “Then he was legend, language ”.Lines 13-16: “but all those months / he was going away from me, dwindling / to the shrunk size of a snapshot, going, / going.”.Lines 8-11: “Stuffed dark suits / into black bags, shuffled in a dead man's shoes, / noosed the double knot of a tie round my bare neck, / gaunt nun in the mirror, touching herself.”.Lines 6-8: “Slept in a single cot, / widow, one empty glove, white femur / in the dust, half.”.Lines 1-5: “I had wept for a night and a day / over my loss, ripped the cloth I was married in / from my breasts, howled, shrieked, clawed / at the burial stones till my hands bled, retched / his name over and over again, dead, dead.”.
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