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A. Plan of Investigation The investigation assesses the extent of significance of President Reagan’s role in the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980’s. Reagan’s role will be looked at while aiding the Nicaraguan Contras, releasing American hostages, both which led to the Iran-Contra affair, and during the cover up, in America and partly in Iran. An investigation account and American history are mostly used to evaluate Reagan’s role. Two of the sources used in this essay, Firewall: The Iran-Contra conspiracy

gender influences aspects of everyday life (“Feminist Literary Theory”) (Moffitt). In this way, the feminist theory can be used to analyze a variety of texts, including the poems, the “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood and “It’s a Woman’s World” by Eavan Boland. Both poems display connections to the feminist theory, particularly in how gender roles and inequality between the sexes influence the poets’ purposes to address male and female stereotypes and encourage change. Although Atwood did not initially

a new language to use to describe the new environment in which they find themselves, as well as a past that they were not a part of. This work was so important to Boland that it was it was referenced in her book of essays, A Journey with Two Maps. I will use this piece, and Boland’s comments on it, to shed light on the struggle Boland faces as an Irish woman writer and how that appears in her poetry. For Kay, it is not just gender that complicates her identity as a Scottish poet, it is race and sexuality

“It’s a Woman’s World” In “It’s a Woman’s World,” Eavan Boland reveals her complex conception of a “woman's world” in chronological order by the use of figurative language. She conveys the idea of woman being misunderstood, and treated differently. Eavan Boland first starts by saying that women’s life has barely changed in the past hundreds of years. She states, “maybe flame burns more greedily and wheels are steadier but we’re the same,” to show that women have began protesting which is described

In the poems “The Pomegranate” by Eavan Boland and “The Bistro Styx” by Rita Dove, the poets make allusions to the myth of Persephone. This myth is about the anguish felt by Persephone’s mother, Demeter, when she loses her. In the poems, both writers are witnessing their daughters grow apart from them, but they have different viewpoints on this process. Boland in “The Pomegranate” understands that this drifting apart is certain and yearns to make the most out of the time she has with her daughter

Eavan Boland, a distiguished Irish poet explores the effects of time and distance on language through her poem Emigrant Letters. She uses literary devices such as, imagery and structure in order to emphasize on the theme of language’s influence to either divide or connect the Irish society. Boland introduces the speaker in the first stanza as an Irish woman returning home. She hears an Irish voice say “Its owner must have been away for years” as she boards her plane. This is when Boland uses metrical

era. Eavan Boland’s poem “Pomegranate,” written in 1994, takes a radically different approach to parenthood than Yeats’s “A Prayer for My Daughter.” Rather than try to create a rigid plan for her child to follow, Boland empathizes with her daughter and understands the importance of letting her choose her own path, even if it is wrong or dangerous. She starts the poem telling the “gist” of the story of Ceres and Persephone, “a daughter lost in hell/ And found and rescued there” (Boland 215). She

like a girl denying her bodily needs” (Arana 279). If a girl is a metaphor for an Ireland, then it is the Catholic Church, who causes her sickness and alone can cure her (Schrage-Früh, “Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian” 133). Thus, the speaker’s appeal towards the “men” to retrieve “a patch of marvellous grass” (Ní Dhomhnaill 74), which is a symbol of fertility and prosperity, expresses her wish for Ireland to restore

Yuriana Hidalgo Introduction to Literature Prof. Paula Cameron Poetry Assignment November 11, 2014 Identity and Rites of Passage In the poems “Anorexic” by Eavan Boland, “The Journey” by Mary Oliver, and “Carrying a Ladder” by Kay Ryan, the three poets described the struggle that society is going through. Each poem is full of meaning, as the reader keep going can see the images, can sense the tone, the language that makes the reader feels identified with the poems. Everyone lives in a society

Evan Boland uses sequential order to speak of the complex conception woman has faced in the “woman’s world.” Boland uses rhyme throughout the poem to emphasize the reference of what women are to society. She states, “we will never be; stargazers, fire-eaters, It’s our alibi,” and “so when the king’s head gored it’s baskets-grim harvest we were gristing bread,” she states that women are belittled in the woman’s world. They could never have a say because women are so busy with what they handle on a