In "Italians in Exile," Lawrence uses the defamiliarizing technique of incorporating sensory description to illustrate the existing relationship between physicality and mentality. His ideal of Italians as individuals highly in tune with their senses is thus illustrated in the following rendering of a group of Italians rehearsing a play.Lawrence does not elaborate on the play itself and after reading the above passage, we are not left with an understanding of what it is these people are doing specifically as much as we are made aware of their heightened senses. This emphasis on descriptive adjectives and verbs like "flushing," "soft," and "sensuous," translates these individuals in terms of their emotional expressions and enables Lawrence to later make the assertion that, "They could hardly live except through the senses"
2006-12-26
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