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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

how 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

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

“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

Another piece from Advanced Feminist Theory that is related to my work is Adrienne Rich’s “Notes Toward a Politics of Location.” In her piece, she quotes Virginia Woolf who wrote “as a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world” (Rich 211). This quote, and this idea, is one that is repeated by several others in their concern with women and their connection to nation and country. Boland’s poetry collection, A Woman Without a Country, not only takes

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

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

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

strife and crisis, he attempts create an environment of order and control for the “infant” republic that is just entering its revolutionary 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

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