Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Poetry of Eavan Boland
- Themes and Interests
- Explores and dramatises different forms of LOVE -romantic and parental love.
- Explores the complexities of FEMALE EXPERIENCES- motherhood and a mothers need to protect her children
- Presents HISTORY and the past as forces that shape the present- different generations of women.
- Examines how we try to contan life within DOMESTIC order and how the forces of nature can threten this
- Styles and Viewpoint
- Is cerebral- The LANGUAGE delibrately engages intelligence rather than emotions (themes , however do engage emotion)
- Employs landscape and everyday items as symbolic IMAGERY to express the complexity of everyday life
- Balances detailed descriptions of objects or scenes with reflective passages, using SOUND patterns to recreate emotions
- Employs unusual and unconventional FORMS such as two line stanzas, irregular rhyming schemes to represent the complexities of human experience.