Eavan Boland Personal Response

The verse of Eavan Boland is clear,relateable and realistic. The stanzas in her poems are terse,but she manages to evoke strong feelings in the reader,e. g. the sense of stolidity in The War Horse. Her poems are relateable because she is a contemporary poet and her al-Qaedas generally refer the suburban culture. Her poetry is realistic because she elaborates and paints evocative pictures of ordinary sights like the acid shyness of the Atlantic light (White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland).In the following,I allow express in more detail of my personal response to the poetry of Eavan Boland. The theme of War and Human suffering is very powerful and sympathetic to me. In The War Horse,she shows how people living in suburb foundation turn a blind eye to the fight and suffering of others. The apathy of the people do the poet angry,she was sarcastic in the lines Why should we care/If a rose,a hedge,a crocus is uprooted/Like corpses,remote,crushed,mutialated? -it shows the nonch alance of the people towards the distant suffering of others.In emphasis of the theme of war,the poet uses the knight as a metaphor of violence the iron of his raiment as he stamps expiry/Like a mint on the innocent coinage of earth. The size,weight and force of the horse causes some modify and destruction,imitating the raw violence that is happening to those distant in Northern Ireland. As the horse leaves,the poet breathes relief this reminds her of her ancestors and she feels humiliated of herself as she is just as indifferent as the people in her neighbourhood,because she is also only observing the horse coming into her neighbourhood.Her blood is still with atavism,for a fleeting turn she is reminded of her ancestors whose lives were threatened but they fought back and had passion for the caoutchouc of others but she is ashamed for she used the subterfuge of curtains and became just as bad as her neighbours. The theme of war is further emphasized in Child of Our time. T his poem deals with the tragical loss of life caused by war and conflict and it shows how all too often,it is the clawren who suffer.The childs final cry is one of pain and anguish. We,the public,the adults,the society should contain made possible and supported a safe environment for that murdered child We should have known how to instruct have failed. The f flake that we cannot guarantee safety forour children is all the more frightening. The poet knows that she and others must learn from you dead in enact to rebuild society. Out of the destruction of the childs death by bombing,the poet grasps the possibility of cultivation and rebuilding.This one act of violence becomes a symbol for every act of violence in which innocent people are killed. Thus,sosiety is held responsible for the childs death Our times have robbed your cradle,but if a new language can be found then the child may not have died in vain. So,in my opinion,Boland effectively gets her point across to the read ers the theme of war and I for one,also believe that most people are apathetic towards war and that a new language should be found. (etc. )