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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Domestic Violence"
    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Domestic Violence"
    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Domestic Violence"
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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Domestic Violence"

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    A Study Guide for Eavan Boland's "Domestic Violence," 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
    ISBN9781535822046
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      Domestic Violence

      Eavan Boland

      2007

      Introduction

      Domestic Violence is a poem by the distinguished Irish poet Eavan Boland. Published as the title poem in Boland's collection Domestic Violence in 2007, it is one of many poems in the collection that combine personal reflections with observations and questions about the sectarian violence that began in the British province of Northern Ireland in 1969 and continued for thirty years.

      In this poem, the poet looks back on the beginning of the Troubles, as the conflict was known in Northern Ireland, and considers the question of the relationship between public and private worlds. She was living near Dublin, Ireland, at the time, which was not directly affected by the violence, so she witnessed the Troubles not as a participant but on the television news. She had just married and was raising two daughters during the 1970s. Was she then unconnected to the violence that broke out in the northern part of the island? Or is everyone somehow involved in what happens in or near their country, even though their own personal lives seem to have no connection to it? As a reflective poem that considers the interwoven fabric of domestic life and Irish history, Domestic Violence serves as an introduction to some of the themes that have repeatedly occupied Boland during her career.

      Author Biography

      Boland was born on September 24, 1944, in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Frederick Boland, was a diplomat who held posts in London and New York City, and her mother, Frances, was a painter. Boland attended a convent school in London from 1950 to 1956 and a school in New York City from 1956 to 1959. She then returned to Ireland and attended a convent school in Killiney, County Durham. Already a lover of poetry with a talent for writing it, she

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