Eavan boland

Eavan Boland’s poem “The Pomegranate” utilizes the intricacies of the Greek myth of Persephone and elegantly intertwines the story to detail the bond of daughter and mother and the cyclical journey from daughter to mother. The myth of Persephone deeply resonates within Boland due to the versatility and impactful meaning of the story. Which in turn gives the poem a ambivalent and bittersweet emotional narrative with a reflective tone. Boland immediately manipulates the cyclical essence of the poem

within her life. Eavan Boland’s “Becoming Anne Bradstreet” speaks of the influence that Anne Bradstreet’s works had on her own world views. Though the titles of Anne Bradstreet’s writings are vivid, the religious meanings within the stanzas of both are fairly contradictory. “On the Burning of My House” mentions the involvement of religion while “To My Dear and Loving Husband” only briefly speaks of religion within her marriage. Anne Bradstreet’s works impacted the verses of Eavan Boland’s “Becoming

Eavan Boland’s ‘Fond Memory’ is a poem which is used to explore the poets past, acting as a vehicle for returning to the days of her childhood. This poem is written with the intent to confront a past memory and creates a relationship between Boland as a young girl and the woman she was when she wrote this. Through the use of literary techniques we become a part of the journey that Boland undertakes in order to go back to her child self and speak about her memories. This is a very personal poem as

The individual's struggle against the power of the colonizer can be seen in the following sources. Sources 1, George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant, 2, Chinua Achebe's The Empire Fights Back, 3, Eavan Boland's In Which the Ancient History I Learn is Not My Own, and 4, National Park Service's Christiansted: Official Map and Guide, all exemplify the harsh implications and effects of colonialism to native countries. Unjust policies, made by colonial powers, subjected colonized populations to the loss

Patchwork Analysis Eavan Boland’s unique poem, Patchwork, allows the reader to be privy to the private thoughts of a persona, presumably the author herself, as she struggles to answer the question of fate or destiny. Throughout the poem, while quilting alone late at night, the speaker puzzles over the randomness of the universe, utilizing the simple quilt metaphor to inspire a final epiphany. Immediately revealing the central theme of the poem as well as alluding to the narrator’s apparent self-doubt

The Irish Potato Famine and The Holocaust in Literature Writers often use literature as a means of communicating traumatic events that occur in history, and such events are recorded by first-hand accounts as well as remembered by people far removed from the situation. Two traumatic events in history that are readily found in literature are The Irish Potato Famine and The Holocaust. A literary medium that has been used quite poignantly to convey trauma is poetry and the poetry from these two

Thursday the 9th of April 2009 Feminism is defined as the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. Eavan Boland and Anne sexton share more than just their love of poetry, they both incorporated female struggles and feminist ideas into their poetry. In a close reading of the poems Her Kind, by Anne Sexton and Anorexic, by Eavan Boland, the themes and the overall feel and struggles of the characters in both poems are very similar; they both use historical and biblical

The conflict between the English and the Irish has had many negative effects on Irish culture and traditions. The Irish language in particular has suffered dramatically from the presence of the English on the island. When the English gained control of Ireland, they forced their language upon the people there, and by the end of the nineteenth century, the Irish Gaelic language was almost extinct. Since then the language has made somewhat of a comeback. Today there are many Gaeltacht, or Irish speaking

Boland is drawing attention to how to often these tiny moments happen and we fail to realize their significance. Everything described before the moment is still, as if time is stopped, and it’s not until the moment is over that everything begins to move again, the moment when time resumes. Boland uses the poetic function of inspiration to inspire us all to take time to appreciate the tiny things in

Final Essay In the poem, “ The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me” and “Father’s Old Blue Cardigan”, Eavan Boland and Anne Carson bring nature into the poem by inserting the cycle of past, memories and lost moment of the bygone. In Eavan poem, the speaker recreate particular moments of the past, revealing her parents’ relationship and lastly points out using elements that relationships are complicated however, they can survive with understanding. Whereas, Anne poem begin with the present and