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Boland

  • 29-09-2010 8:37pm
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    Ave Sodalis
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    Hey. I have a essay to write on Eavan Boland- The Pomegranate under certain headings. I am normally okay at these essays but for some reason, I cannot seem to be able to elaborate on the theme of parenthood, in particular motherhood at all today. I just can't concentrate. :(


    Can anyone give me a starting point and ideas please? I wouldn't ask but I am completely stuck!


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  • #2
    nommm
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    sup_dude wrote: »
    Hey. I have a essay to write on Eavan Boland- The Pomegranate under certain headings. I am normally okay at these essays but for some reason, I cannot seem to be able to elaborate on the theme of parenthood, in particular motherhood at all today. I just can't concentrate. :(


    Can anyone give me a starting point and ideas please? I wouldn't ask but I am completely stuck!

    Well if you're talking about Motherhood in the Pomegranate you should probably mention the links between the poem and the myth of Ceres and Persephone. You're also talking about how the poets feels about her daughter growing up. She has to let her child go out into the world and discove all the horrible things that she has already found out. She decides not to warn her because she thinks that in order to become your own person you must endure some kind of suffering.


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    ddyradd
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    sup_dude wrote: »
    Hey. I have a essay to write on Eavan Boland- The Pomegranate under certain headings. I am normally okay at these essays but for some reason, I cannot seem to be able to elaborate on the theme of parenthood, in particular motherhood at all today. I just can't concentrate. :(


    Can anyone give me a starting point and ideas please? I wouldn't ask but I am completely stuck!

    The Pommegrannete:

    -Intensely personal. Boland shares her parental realationship in an undeniably intimate manner.
    -"her can of coke" "teen magazines" Boland imbuses the poem with universal relevance by carefully employing icons of youth culture

    Loads more just read the poem line by line and ask yourself what its saying about aprenthood

    Also a nice little point about this poem is how Boland blends tense to show the long and changing relationship of parenthood. Pluperfect, Past, Present indicitave and imperative and future are blended excellently.

    Also the last line , the caesura is wonderfully for showing the tension in the relationship " And two her lips/ I will say nothing "


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