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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 through juxtaposing the little girl in the myth, Persephone, to the little girl reading the poem, the narrator

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

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

the ending phrase "small families," introducing a note of vulnerability and warm that is difficult to resist. Thus Boland presents the complications of the domestic sphere for the suburban woman speaker of Night Feed; both nurturing and entrapping, it is a place in communication with an expansive universe but as constricting as the small turns of a spiral staircase. In the poem, Boland offers a domestic world transformed by exotic suggestions and informed by the unhoused images of endlessly spinning

“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

failed searches, I realized that is was too hard to determine what information was actually correct. Therefore, I concluded that it was probably best to follow my academic advisor’s advice to meet with Amanda Boland, the career consultant assigned to seniors with interest

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

could imagine singing while traveling down a river, “Little Muddy, Big Muddy, Moreau and Osage, /Little Mary’s, Big Mary’s, Cedar Creek, /Flood deir muddy water roundabout a man’s roots, /Keep him soaked and stranded and git him weak” (Strand and Boland 94). The words he chose roll off your tongue as they are spoken, and are symbolic of the water as it moves. Each stanza grows more musical as the poem goes on, like the start of a trip in a ferry on a river- slow to start then smooth as it goes down

empathy task of a soldier named Jack Boland. He was a conscript soldier (choco) who was nineteen years old. He had no experience when he was conscripted to join the 11th Platoon of the 39th Battalion. The 39th Battalion existed as a unit for only 2O months of World War II, but its story is one of the most unusual and proudest in the annals of Australian military history. It was formed in haste from disparate Victorian militia elements in Oct-Nov 1941. Jack Boland is a real person who fought at the

passed Boland amendment prohibiting the agency from aiding the contras. , Casey continued to find ways to evade the amendment (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2010). On January 7, 1984 and February 29, 1984, the CIA mined several harbors in Nicaragua. Later, during the spring of 1984, Congress found out about the agency’s mining of Nicaragua’s harbors, which created a serious backlash against aiding the contras. Consequently, on August 1, 1984, the House of Representatives passed