caa a22 4500 378936158 CHVBK 20180305123641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041023xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ANGL.2004.89 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ANGL.2004.89 Müller Sabina Zürich Apple Blossom and Pomegranate: Eavan Boland's Mother-Daughter Story [Elektronische Daten] [Sabina Müller] Eavan Boland's mother-daughter poems are principally found in Night Feed (1982), In a Time of Violence (1994) and The Lost Land (1998). This article examines the poems' relationship to two underlying myths: the Biblical story of Eden and the fall, employed in the "Domestic Interior” sequence of Night Feed, as well as the classical myth of Demeter and Persephone, which Boland adapts in her other mother-daughter poems, probably following a suggestion by Adrienne Rich. Up to In a Time of Violence Boland interprets the myth of Demeter in a predominantly positive way. With The Lost Land, however, she adds a critical note. Here the fate of the daughter is linked to that of the country, and Demeter as a goddess of the corn is aligned with Irish personifications of the land. In these poems, Boland is thus not only concerned with the mother-daughter relationship, but also approaches anew the problematic concept of Ireland-as-woman. © Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2003 Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 122/1(2004-10-23), 89-108 0340-5222 122:1<89 2004 122 ANGL https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2004.89 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2004.89 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Müller Sabina Zürich NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 122/1(2004-10-23), 89-108 0340-5222 122:1<89 2004 122 ANGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter