tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post113898344928385010..comments2024-01-28T03:35:51.182-05:00Comments on Reassigned Time: Poetry Friday - Eavan BolandDr. Crazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1139244862154792472006-02-06T11:54:00.000-05:002006-02-06T11:54:00.000-05:00to me it suggests roman hegemony, their imperialis...to me it suggests roman hegemony, their imperialistic appropriation of greek cultural forms, which is something we take for granted (ceres is the roman demeter, right? or is she?) <BR/><BR/>of course, that's got less to do with the poem than it does with the fact that this is what my dissertation is about (this myth, a major cult associated with it, roman appropriation of both). obviously, i'm not coming at this from a literary perspective, but from the perspective of a cultural historian. <BR/> <BR/>as literature, I follow what you're both saying. and i do like the poem :) <BR/><BR/>I may write my own post what about my reaction to this, which I'm finding a little curious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1139190854493159752006-02-05T20:54:00.000-05:002006-02-05T20:54:00.000-05:00I love your taste in poems. You do a great Poetry...I love your taste in poems. You do a great Poetry Friday.<BR/><BR/>I'd add that the juxtaposition of Greece and Rome, at the same time that it suggests habitation of separate countries, also suggests union, the erasure of boundaries(for the myth is about joining as well as separation, and the poem ends with an image that suggests both joinder and separation). After all, look at the merger of the "French sound for apple and/the noise of stone," and the complexity of the treatment of that image, dyadic and divisive in one blow. <BR/> All very Nancy Chodorow.Perfesser Slaughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18121044187510013809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1139006301642599892006-02-03T17:38:00.000-05:002006-02-03T17:38:00.000-05:00Hmmm. That's wonderful.Hmmm. That's wonderful.Charityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09423871932016226844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1138999247738310922006-02-03T15:40:00.000-05:002006-02-03T15:40:00.000-05:00Oh wait - that's not the poem I meant.... it's act...Oh wait - that's not the poem I meant.... it's actually called "The Lost Land" (I always confuse them because I teach them both in the Survey of Brit Lit II)Dr. Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1138999038715323712006-02-03T15:37:00.000-05:002006-02-03T15:37:00.000-05:00I actually really like the juxtaposition of the tw...I actually really like the juxtaposition of the two, but I think it may be because of another poem by Boland called "The Science of Cartography is Limited" in which she compares her daughters to Ireland.... the country that she cannot have back.... Something about putting the greek and roman names against one another makes me think of how mothers and daughters can feel like they are separate countries, and to me that fits with the myth that she references here. Sorry if I'm not being tremendously articulate - I just finished a couple of hours of meetings and it's been a long week. But I'm happy I could introduce you to Boland. She really is spectacular.Dr. Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1138998576409077962006-02-03T15:29:00.000-05:002006-02-03T15:29:00.000-05:00I don't know this poet, but I like this poem very ...I don't know this poet, but I like this poem very much. except using the roman ceres with the greek persephone jars me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com