It's A Womans World By Eavan Boland

In the poem “It’s a Woman’s World” Eavan Boland reveals a complex conception about a woman’s world. She explains her though process when she sees her fellow neighbor. In explaining her process, she uses multiple devices that helps the reader understand her point of view.

Throughout the poem, Boland utilizes imagery to help the reader understand her point. “Our lives with oversights—living by the lights of the loafs left by the cash register” with this quote, the reader should be able to understand a side of a woman’s world and what she had to go through just to purchase washing powder. “…The washing powder paid for and wrapped, the wash left wet.” By providing the reader with these quotes, it gives him/her an image of how complex it was to

be a woman.
Boland uses a figurative language by using repetition. The use of repetition in this poem shows the reader what complex women are not. “By what we never will be: star-gazers, fire-eaters.” Then, in another line”—She’s no fire-eater” In the first quote, Boland explains herself as not being a “fire-eater.” Then, in the second quote, she talks about her neighbor, who is also a woman, and basically says that she is not a fire-eater as well.
In one quote Boland says, “By night our windows moth our children to the flame of hearth not history.” If one leaves his/her light on next to the window at night, moth will attempt to attack the light. But, preventing it going onto the light is a window. Boland uses real life examples and turns it into her own words to produce her own complex style of writing.
In the poem “It’s a Woman World” Eavan Boland explains the world in her point of view. She mainly explains to the reader the complex view of a woman’s world.