Eavan Boland Essays

Eavan Boland cleverly uses language features, such as metaphors, similes, references to Greek mythology and symbolism, to connect to her personal experiences, seen in the poems Motherhood and Love, celebrating the durability of love, the joys of motherhood and the ordinary everyday. She also conveys the cold and disturbing truths about society, like the ignored presence of War and Violence in places like suburban areas. Boland’s poem ‘The War Horse’ depicts the ugly truth about the war and violence

Through Eavan Boland 's poetry, she looks back on things that have happened in her life, pondering their meaning and how they have impacted her for good or bad. She does this through her use of language. There are recurring themes in her poetry. She refers to mythology and folklore and compares them to life experiences. Boland uses simple and accessible language even when dealing with complex emotions. Her use of different stanza lengths adds depth to her poems. There are certain themes that continuously

We are all pressured by society’s standards. Society thinks people who are not thin are unattractive or flawed more than someone who is “ideal” or “beautiful.” Eavan Boland 's poem “Anorexic” is no exception to the rule of society. In fact, the poem is a great example of how society can affect a person. A lot of Boland’s poems used to be politics, but she switched to feminism. A lot of her poems scream at society for the way you have to look to be accepted by society.Society emphasizes the need

“Every action has equal and opposite reactions. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time” (Anil Sinha). Karma is a force that shouldn’t be tested; no matter who it is or where they are, it will always be there when fate is ready. Even if these people try to conceal their true emotions, they will pay the price. Normally, the price will be as extreme as the action

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

When reading The Making of a Poem one thing that really intrigued me was the beginning. Right away we get to see how Eavan Boland fell in love with poetry and it's very significant to put it there at the start before getting to know anything else about her. As readers, we never really get to hear how a writer picks up their talent but rather little snippets of their life if you will, it's about more of where they come from and their life experiences, then the craft itself. We don't see what really

As Alicia Ostriker writes, the flesh in Catholicism was seen “corrupt and corruptible; it is inherently sinful and inherently subject to change and death” (qtd. in González-Arias, “Foodless, Curveless, Sinless: Reading the Female Body in Eavan Boland’s ‘Anorexic’”). This alludes to the medieval nuns, which has been examined by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia, whose starvation was a way to reject and broke free from the women’s sinful nature (qtd. in González-Arias, “‘The Famine of the 90s’:

poet Eavan Boland was reading Book 1 of Ovid’s Metamorphosis, she wanted to express a different meaning of the story of Daphne by writing “Daphne with her Thighs in Bark”. She did this by using a feminist approach while looking back at Daphne’s fate. Before going into the poem, let’s have a look at the background of where Boland got her sources for the masterpiece. In Ovid’s Metamorphosis Book 1, many mythical tales captivate the

some members of society still perceive women as individuals operating under these same limited expectations. Therefore, women continue to be affected by stereotypes concerning prejudice. In Kate Chopin’s short story of “The Story of An Hour”, the Eavan Boland poem “It’s A Woman’s World”, the non-fiction piece “The Good Housewife”, and Zora Neale Hurston’s novel of Their Eyes Were Watching God, the authors argue that male dominance over women can make them convinced they are set to a lower standard

Women into the World of Poetry Eavan Boland is known for her poetry being controversial. The subjects of her poems, most notably “Anorexia” and “In His Own Image,” were not wildly discussed at the time of their publication, and Boland believed that this wasn’t right. Most of her poems were brash in their own ways, with no hidden meanings behind her words, and are meant for discussion. “Mise Eire” also has an important role to play in these discussions; in it, Boland is pulling women out of the mythical

native country within schools. In his poem, “In Which the Ancient History I Learn is Not My Own,” Eavan Boland reveals his desire to learn about his roots in Ireland in his ancient history class; however, Boland lived in London, meaning the class primarily focused on and glorified England’s achievements in the world. As he assimilated to British society and was taught to idealize England in school, Boland felt that “Ireland was far away and farther away every year”; he