It's A Womans World By Eavan Boland Analysis

In Eavan Boland's "It's a Woman's World," the perplexing view of women is expressed. She uses multiple poetic devices throughout this poem to convey this message. In line 5, Boland uses imagery when she states "maybe the flame burns more greedily and wheels are steadier." This imagery exemplifies how women are greedy for more because of the potential they have. In the first stanza, the metaphor comparing women to a wheel, when it states" our way of life has hardly changed since a wheel first whetted a knife" enhances how strong women are. A wheel has multiple parts to it, thus saying how women are important in multiple ways, as mothers and wives, among other things. The definitive and aggressive tome in these two stanzas point out how women are still disrespected and always have been. Boland's anger towards this conception of a woman's world is also shown in lines 11-16 through an angry tone, when she articulates "living by the lights, of the loaf left by the cash register, the washing powder paid for and wrapped," This indicates she doesn't like how women work their basic jobs and that they're stronger than that. This definitive tone is also shown when she writes, "we are

The allusion "so when the king's head gored its basket---grim harvest---we were gristing bread" shows how women were doing the hard work, the slave work, and her frustration here is present. This is further enforced by "or getting the recipe for a good soup to appetize our gossip."The angry tone counties with the reputation of the word still towards the end of the poem "And it's still the same..And still no page..But appearances still reassure." Through this she's exemplifying have yet to earn their stamp and want to be represented in history. The personification of "she's no fire-eater" indicates that the outrage of women is just beginning to