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I need summary for the poem The lost land Eavan Boland

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I need summary for the poem The lost land Eavan Boland

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  1. Eavan Boland's The Lost Land is no loose gathering of poems. It works as a single, highly constructed, highly conceptual work of art. It has three subject matters - Ireland, language and womanhood. Most of the poems fuse the three elements so that the blood and iron of the Irish past become inseparable from a bardic voice, which is a woman's voice, which articulates national experience as a female experience.

    The Lost Land

      

    I have two daughters.

    They are all I ever wanted from the earth.

    Or almost all.

    I also wanted one piece of ground:

    One city trapped by hills. One urban river.

    An island in its element.

    So I could say mine. My own.

    And mean it.

    Now they are grown up and far away

    and memory itself

    has become an emigrant,

    wandering in a place

    where love dissembles itself as landscape:

    Where the hills

    are the colour's of a child's eyes,

    where my children are distances, horizons:

    At night,

    on the edge of sleep,

    I can see the shore of Dublin Bay.

    Its rocky sweep and its granite pier.

    Is this, I say

    how they must have seen it,

    backing out on the mailboat at twilight,

    shadows falling

    on everything they had to leave?

    And would love forever?

    And then

    I imagine myself

    at the landward rail of that boat

    searching for the last sight of a hand.

    I see myself

    on the underwold side of that water,

    the darkness coming in fast, saying

    all the names I know for a lost land:

    Ireland. Absence. Daughter.    ---   Eavan  Boland .



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