Poetry for Students, Volume 31

that will return later in the poem. Here directed toward the immediate present, the word estab- lishes preference for the proces ...

the persona ‘‘Walt Whitman,’’ absorbs and cele- brates the world. But in section 3 Whitman strikes his most original concept of ...

perhaps more avuncular for the loss of the other. He was the gypsy boy my sister and I went once to the woods with, with our pon ...

Puritan ideas and a revolt against the Puritan tendency to solidify ideas into authoritarian the- ology. Thus, ‘‘whereas the Pur ...

quietistic creed, Whitman went to work as a printer, joined debating societies, became an edi- tor, and enjoyed plays, concerts, ...

means to an end. In the sermon that Whitman had remembered for such a long time, Hicks had said that the end of man is ‘‘to glor ...

much to say that he received his impetus in this direction both negatively and positively, from Quakerism and Elias Hicks. Sourc ...

Outside History In ‘‘Outside History,’’ the Irish poet Eavan Boland touches on themes characteristic of much of her work. In thi ...

and Frances Kelly Boland, a painter, Boland was educated in England and the United States. Her father served as the Irish ambass ...

The second line of the fourth stanza marks the exact midpoint of the poem; it is also a dis- tinct turning point within the poem ...

history as a painful ordeal, but one in which she is a willing participant. There is nothing within the poem that valorizes huma ...

the poet’s own history of alienation from history and her desire to no longer accept the status of outsider. Death Boland views ...

line, establishing the poem’s rhythm. In free-verse poetry, both the number of syllables and the pattern denoting which syllable ...

For decades, the provisional Irish Republi- can Army (IRA) fought to make Great Britain relinquish its hold on Northern Ireland, ...

Women’s Poetry, maintain that Boland uses the poetic form as a vehicle for scrutinizing ‘‘Ire- land’s overlapping literary and p ...

heritage, as McCallum affirms, ‘‘Boland’s poems make their own best argument for not only her right but also her ability to lay ...

connection to her society at first as a poet but not as a woman, then later as a woman but not as a poet, and this fractured sen ...

the land, to rivers and roads and fields, are made in the sixth stanza. Through such examples, and by linking the elements of th ...

Out of myth into history I move to be part of the ordeal whose darkness is only now reaching me from those fields, those rivers, ...

‘‘The Dolls Museum in Dublin’’ suggests another silenced event in Irish history. Like the map of Connacht, the Dublin dolls ensh ...