ENGL1009 Study Guide - Eavan Boland
8 Nov 2014
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In it"s a woman"s world, eavan boland utilizes a fire motif to depict the unchanging status of women in society. Heavy g sounds also stress her anger over the fact that the life of a woman has not changed much over several centuries. Lastly, the structure of the poem reflects how no matter what time period in history, the women has been expected to tend to domestic affairs. Boland combines these devices to leave the reader with the impression that she is truly aggravated about the subject matter. The usage of flame imagery is important to boland"s view of a woman"s world. There are numerous examples of where boland invokes the idea of fire. In the second stanza, the fire burns more greedily. although the fire of human civilization has steadily burned on for centuries, the woman"s life has hardly changed. In boland"s mind, women will never be movers and shakers in the modern world.
