Eavan Boland - Love Flashcards
Imagery Dusk-time of change- change in intensity of their love Atmospheric imagery Mysterious Beginning
Dark falls on this mid-western town where we once lived when myths collided
Physical belongings in their home
We had a kitchen and an Amish table
Love was light, strong and lifted the,m
The intense love lifted their souls
Love had the feather and muscle of wings
Personification on love
Them two lives with love
Deeply in love at the time
As love was independent and separate it may also choose to leave
And had come to live with us
One of their children nearly died of meningitis
Personification of death
Touched by death
Communication
Recurring theme of communication
Lack of communication between person in legend
Contrast to her and her husnabd
Their mouths opened and their voices failed and there is no knowing what they would have asked
Addressing husband
I am your wife
Love is still there
Faded and lost intensity though
We love each other still
Communication is their secret to success
Contrast to legend
Why they have a strong marriage
We hear each other clearly
Wants to return to past despite their happy marriage
A vivid heroic image of how he once was
Picked out by the headlights of a passing car
Magical
She admires him
I want to return to you on the bridge of the Iowa river as you were with snow in the shoulders of your coat and a car passing with its headlights on
Tender
Playing tribute to her husband
He has mythical qualities
Heroic image describe Befkre
I see you as a hero in a text
Rhetorical q
Will we ever live so intensely again?
Words cannot recreate the depths of the feelings they once shared
Again, like in the myth, she cannot interact with the memory of her husband
She feels she cannot talk to him about this
But the words are shadows and you cannot hear me
Themes
Communication
Love and marriage (celebration of endurance)
Recovering past (tragic point that we can never experience the past again)
