Imagery; Symbol Pictorial Auditory Synaesthetic (3)

'yellow ball'; warmth experienced at home (sun is also associated with daytime and warmth) Mercenary returning home "with his life/in a sack on his back"; although when returning there is the "same sign on the inn" and the chiming of the 'same bell', things had 'changed' - reminds the reader that the past cannot be repeated (C.R to Heraclitus) Priest "crying at the workings of memory"; sybolises spirituality - Duffy presents a starkly different character to that of the mercenary (both are deeply affected by nostalgia) 'wrong taste', 'wrong smells', 'light' is 'wrong', 'every breath' is 'wrong'; the appeal to synaesthesia highlights the overwhelming feeling of nostalgia "stones in the belly" Schoolteacher smelling the "scent of her youth, too late"; emotional yearning to go back to the past