Eavn Boland Snapshot

Domestic and suburban settings

Explores family and relationship

Lyrical and imaginative descriptions

Use of myths and legends

Evocative, 'painterly' language

Themes also public and political - war, violence, relationships, suburbia, womanhood/feminism

Feminist concerns

Mother- child and marital Link Title

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Love

personal memories

Poem about loss and change

Aeneas myth as framework for relationship

Desire to recapture past

Images of light, darkness, speech

moving poem expressing deep emotion

Meditation on love - deep intimate feelings

This Moment

Reminds us of other works of art

Celebrates a particular moment in time

set in a suburban garden

sensuous language

close mother-child relationship

Passing of timw and loss of innocence

Celebrating ordinary experience of a woman

Child of our Time

Elegy - poem of lament on someone's death

Expresses a range of feelings from grief to hope.

Tender images of childhood innocence

Image of language and speech significant

Political poem

Sound contributes to musical effect

The War Horse

detachment of outsiders for the violence in N.Irl.

Suburban estate - horse's damage prompts refection on our attitude

language and imagery of war

sound effects(assonance, rhyme and onomatopoeia) add a musical quality

Rhetorical questions prompt reader to reflect on their attitudes

Juxtaposition

The Pomegranate

changing nature of mother-daughter relationship

Personal emotions

Desire to capture the past

Mythical allusion -Ceres - to create universal appeal

vivid, dark images.