exhibit historical and cultural artifacts from different points of history. However‚ do both maps and museums only tell part of the story? In Eavan Boland’s “That the Science of Cartography is Limited‚” she conveys how a certain map‚ specifically a map of Ireland‚ does not adequately express the history of Ireland. While in her poem “The Dolls Museum in Dublin‚” Boland finds that the doll represents more than illustrating a holiday attire worn in Dublin. In the context of Boland’s poetry‚ maps and museums
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“The appeal of Eavan Boland’s poetry” The appeal of Eavan Boland’s poetry is how real she is as her personal experiences are reflected in her poems. Her writing is humble and domestic making it accessible to the reader as she is interested in the voices of the powerless in society such as in ‘The Famine Road’. Being that she is from Dublin her references in her poems make the poems relevant and accessible to readers who are also from Dublin as in ‘The war Horse’. Her appeal to women is obvious
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Eavan Boland’s poem "The Necessity for Irony" begins in narrative tone‚ when on a unremarkable Sunday Eavan‚ with her daughter‚ go browsing for antiques in town. However‚ by the end of the poem‚ Eavan’s tone is lyrical‚ as she sends an apostrophe to the "spirit of irony‚" asking it to "reproach" her for focusing on antiques rather than what was truly beautiful‚ her child. Her dramatic shift in tone is slow and accomplished using various techniques. In the first stanza of "The Necessity for Irony
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An art deco lamp with a slag glass shade cast amber light over the bed. The body of the silver haired man shuddered as he struggled to draw each breath. For seventy-six years Raymond Edward Boland lived a full and lusty life. Now he was dying. Resisting the waiting arms of death‚ he retreated into the past. In 1845 nature cast a dark spell over Ireland‚ causing the number one food staple to fail. Leaves curled up‚ stalks turned black‚ potato tubers rotted in the ground‚ and a stench rose from the
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Woman’s Rights I have heard this Chinese phrase few years ago‚ “Women hold up half of the sky.” Today‚ both men and women can work outside the house; basically they got almost the same rights either in families or in society. Men are no longer the central of the family‚ and women also are no longer slaves of the family. However‚ can you image in the past decades‚ women have no rights and positions neither in families nor in society. The only things that the society gave them were their abilities
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| Woman’s Suffrage | History 122: American History from 1877 | Professor Thomas Shepard | Laura Davidson | 12/14/2011 | Thesis: The Constitution did not initially make reference to the rights of women. Obtaining equal rights for women was a long and intense battle. Women fought for many rights such as‚ birth control and the right to keep wages. However‚ the largest of the woman’s rights struggles was for suffrage. | Woman’s Suffrage The limits of freedom for women can be seen
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Woman’s Work Julia Alvarez’s poem Woman’s Work is about the relationship between mother and daughter through the work that each performs. Julia Alvarez tells a story from the point of view of the daughter‚ now a grown woman remembering her childhood. After reading this poem there are a few interpretations that one can make of Julia Alvarez’s thoughts and feelings about the relationship she had with her own mother‚ or the relationship between a mother and daughter‚ as the mother instructs her daughter
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Alana Jayne Piper’s article “‘Woman’s Special Enemy’: Female Enmity in Criminal Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century” provides insight into this issue by describing familial roles of women in the 1800’s. She explains that “Even dangers that seemed to indicate clear culpability
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Formal Analysis The elements of art in Matisse’s ‘Woman With a Hat’ are line‚ shape‚ color and texture. The lines of the painting are soft‚ natural‚ and textured‚ and the brushstrokes are left apparent‚ as opposed to solid‚ straight lines. In addition‚ the lines‚ as well as the shapes‚ are curved and organic. The shapes of the painting are very circular. Their rounded nature emphasizes the humanity and softness of the woman. Color is the most dominant element of this piece‚ as the bright and
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A Glance at G.E. Hicks’s triptych “Woman’s Mission” During the Victorian Era‚ the question of what made up true womanhood raised to the surface. This painting tells a story depicting the idea of dependency upon the woman of the household to take care of anybody except herself. However‚ when speaking of beauty ideologies‚ she needed to take care of her appearance. In all three paintings she is wearing an elaborate dress as well as the fact that she was well groomed as seen in her hair. The triptych
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