Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht - Genius.
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates. Get Started.This is the place of their presence: in the tree, in the air. Title: The title suggests a possible subject for the poem: a bend in the road. In poetry, a road is often symbolic of a journey or a passage, so that too must be considered. Summary: The first stanza suggests that two parents and their child, a boy.The poem is about memory and loss and is essentially an attempt on behalf of the poet to recreate her father from memory. The poem appeals to the imagination, as it weaves together a narrative of the real and the supernatural as a young girl journeys through a busy Irish fair. Past and present are interwoven as a continuous present.
Eavan Boland and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain are both female Irish poets whose work focuses primarily on the issue of identity as a fragile, constructed thing. This essay will use close examination of both Boland and Ni Chuilleanain’s work in order to explore how two separate female poets deal with the topic of identity.Paper Two is known as the Literature Paper. There are three sections on this paper - Single Text, Comparative Texts and Poetry. Higher Level candidates must answer on Shakespearean drama.They can do so in either the Single Text question or as part of their Comparative Study.
As the poem implies, studying the languages of people, and the buildings in which they live, has been a major concern in all of Ni Chuilleanain's work. The beehive huts, and the mysterious occupants within, who endure long periods of silence, are a way into the past but also a part of the present and a symbol of a life we can only speculate about.
