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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Outside History"
    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Outside History"
    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Outside History"
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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Outside History"

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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Outside History," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535830461
    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Outside History"

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      A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Outside History" - Gale

      09

      Outside History

      Eavan Boland

      1990

      Introduction

      In Outside History, the Irish poet Eavan Boland touches on themes characteristic of much of her work. In this poem, which first appeared in a volume of the same title, and in the longer poetic sequence of which it is a part, Boland discusses her sense of estrangement from Irish history. Throughout the poem's seven stanzas, Boland's feelings of isolation from both cultural and literary history are detailed. The tone is full of sorrow and remorse, and the theme of death is prevalent. At the same time, the poem, like many of Boland's works, evokes a sense of common humanity, or at least a desire for that ideal. Boland, a feminist, has discussed the long-held view in the world of Irish literature that the terms woman and poet are mutually exclusive, and her work consequently emphasizes the plight of outsiders and repeatedly conveys notions of exclusion and isolation. Her work is therefore often critically examined through this feminist lens, and Outside History lends itself to such an interpretation. The poem was originally published in 1990 in Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 and was more recently made available in New Collected Poems, published in 2005.

      Author Biography

      Eavan Aisling Boland was born on September 24, 1944, in Dublin, Ireland. The youngest of the five children of Frederick Boland, a diplomat, and Frances Kelly Boland, a painter, Boland was educated in England and the United States. Her father served as the Irish ambassador in London, to the Court of St. James, from 1950 through 1956 and then as an Irish ambassador to the United Nations, from 1956 through 1959. Boland attended Catholic schools in London and in New York City and endured

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