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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland 's "Against Love Poetry"
    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland 's "Against Love Poetry"
    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland 's "Against Love Poetry"
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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland 's "Against Love Poetry"

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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland 's "Against Love Poetry," 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 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535817714
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      Against Love Poetry

      Eavan Boland

      2001

      Introduction

      Boland is an Irish poet, often described as a feminist, whose work is characterized by the exploration of the role of women in Irish culture and history. Her poem Against Love Poetry is part of a poetry collection by the same name. The first section of this volume of poetry deals with the theme of marriage. Against Love Poetry focuses largely on this theme as well. A prose poem, Against Love Poetry is written in paragraph form rather than as lines of verse. It does not include formal structures such as rhyme or meter. Yet through the use of such elements as repetition and imagery, Boland constructs a poem marked by the natural rhythm of the spoken word. Speaking out against the forms and themes of traditional love poetry, Boland focuses on the contradictions she observes in the notion of love, discussing the way freedom does not exist within the confines of marriage. The poem has a defiant tone, and in its very structure as a prose poem rather than a verse poem, it defies the conventions of traditional poetry.

      Against Love Poetry first appeared in Against Love Poetry: Poems in 2001. The collection was published as Code that same year in the United Kingdom.

      Author Biography

      Born in Dublin, Ireland, on September 24, 1944, Boland is the youngest of the five children of Frederick and Frances Boland. Boland's father was a diplomat, serving as the Irish ambassador in London in the 1950s and to the United Nations during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her mother, a painter, has works displayed in the Dublin Municipal

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