Amethyst Beads
by Eavan Boland
‘Amethyst Beads’ by Eavan Boland alludes to Greek mythology and the suffering of a child, Persephone, after she was separated from her mother, Demeter.
And Soul
by Eavan Boland
‘And Soul’ by Eavan Boland is a poem about death and a body’s dissolution into the elements that it is made up of. The poet emphasizes the connection between a human being made nearly entirely of water and a city that’s drenched by a particularly rainy summer season.Â
Anorexic
by Eavan Boland
‘Anorexic’ by Eavan Boland conveys the mindset of a woman determined to destroy her physical body through starvation and filled with hatred for her sinful past, as according to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve.
Child of Our Time
by Eavan Boland
‘Child of Our Time’ by Eavan Boland was published in the poet’s 1975 collection The War Horse. This poem was
Cityscape
by Eavan Boland
‘Cityscape’ by Eavan Boland is a complex, allusion-filled poem that describes Dublin and the Blackrock Baths, and presents contrasting images of past and present.Â
How We Made a New Art on Old Ground
by Eavan Boland
‘How We Made a New Art on Old Ground’ by Eavan Boland depicts the way that poetry can remake a landscape with dark history, if only for a few moments as one reads it.
Is it Still the Same
by Eavan Boland
‘Is it Still the Same’ is a brilliant, affirming poem that explores memory and its relationship to a particular place and time.
Love
by Eavan Boland
‘Love’ was published in Eavan Boland’s 1994 collection In a Time of Violence. It speaks on themes of love, regret, and memory.Â
Outside History
by Eavan Boland
In ‘Outside History’ Boland takes the reader through the life and death of a star and how human experience, particularly that of
Quarantine
by Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland’s poem ‘Quarantine’ is a non-traditional love poem about a husband and wife who are forced to move north during the Great Irish Famine in 1847. RTÉ shortlisted 10 poems as Ireland’s favorite poems of the last century in 2015. Boland’s ‘Quarantine’ was one of them.
That the Science of Cartography is Limit
by Eavan Boland
‘That the Science of Cartography is Limited’ is similar in its subject matter and themes to another one of Boland’s
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
by Eavan Boland
‘The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me’ speaks on themes of love, relationships, time, and aging. Boland crafts a
The Famine Road
by Eavan Boland
Within ‘The Famine Road’ Boland uses historical details to speak on the horrors of the Irish Potato Famine and present
The Pomegranate
by Eavan Boland
Within ‘The Pomegranate’ Boland uses the Greek myth of Persephone, Ceres, also known as Demeter, and Hades to speak on
The Shadow Doll
by Eavan Boland
‘The Shadow Doll’ by Eavan Boland describes the complexities of marriage from the perspective of contemporary and Victorian brides. In
The War Horse
by Eavan Boland
‘The War Horse’ by Eavan Boland was published in 1975 and written by the poet after several experiences with a
This Moment
by Eavan Boland
In This Moment’ Boland captures the liminal existence of a neighbourhood as it waits for the stars to rise and
White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland
by Eavan Boland
Boland depicts a world in ‘White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland’ in which the natural world speaks its own
Witness
by Eavan Boland
‘Witness’ is a thoughtful contemplation on the nature of memory, identity and guilt in the context of Boland’s Dublin.