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Aug 15, 2013 · This essay shows that Irish women poets revise female allegories of the nation either by aligning them with women's lived experience, as Eavan Boland has done, or by re-evaluating them from within their liminality, through stylistic experimentation or irony, which the analysis of poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní ...
- Katharina Walter
- 2013
Recent Irish literature not only reflects but also fosters a necessary rethinking of the relationship between the female body and the nation. Especially in the poetry of Eavan Boland, embodied experience and female allegories of the nation have been recurrent themes since the 1970s.
This essay shows that Irish women poets revise female allegories of the nation either by aligning them with women's lived experience, as Eavan Boland has done, or by re-evaluating them from within...
Aisling by Seamus Heaney - Analysis. An Irish poetic genre – a classical myth – a ‘he’ and a ‘her’ appropriate to allegory – merited punishment.
Jul 25, 2016 · This paper aims to probe the marginalized female voice by reading Eavan Boland’s poetry. Textual analysis aside, Boland’s critical essays on the lives of Irish women, collected in Object Lessons (1994), will be discussed.
- Tsung Chi Hawk 張崇旂 Chang
- hawkchang2001@yahoo.com.tw
- 2016
Sep 11, 2023 · Analysis: Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen's books have deftly captured a unique Irish archetype and modern heroine. By Síle Ní Choincheannain, Mary Immaculate College Limerick.
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Mar 22, 2024 · Aisling is the Irish for dream or vision, and it may take the form of a vision poem. The genre was developed as a part of the wider Irish language poetry field at the end of the 17th century, going into the 18th.
