Sample essays on eavan boland

Upon encountering Eavan Boland’s poetry, readers will discover representations of human experiences that are largely accessible, as such facets of existence are expressed in a sincere manner. In the poem ‘Love,’ for instance, Boland explores the experience of love in her own marriage.

This being a dramatic poem, and as allowed by poetic license, Boland speaks for the characters and through her he decides to give out no money to the starving; he will ‘give them no coins at all’. Instead he will make them work because ‘their bones need toil, their characters no less’.

In ‘this moment’, the most simple gesture of a mother lifting up her child in a street in the suburbs is turned into a mysterious almost magical story of motherhood and love and a child’s need for the feeling of security in its mother’s arms. This could be any neighbourhood, anywhere, which creates a universality of her theme.

Boland often uses a personal experience to reflect on an issue of universal importance, as she does in ‘The War Horse’ and ‘Child of Our Time’. ‘In ‘This Moment’ she manages to give such personal moment’s universal significance and depict such events in an honest way.