Yet, Boland was adamant about not editing out the everyday experiences of motherhood and family life but instead to weave them into bigger truths of human fragilities, strengths and volatilities, history and mythology.
Why does this article insist that history is more important than the lives people are living?
“I shall never quite forget the shock of beauty that I get when the door was opened at Brick’s and as we stepped out into the early morning streets… looking up Rue Pigall there stood Sacred-Heart… beautiful, pearly Sacre-Coeur as though its silent loveliness were pointing a white finger at our night’s debauchery. I wished then that so worthy an emotion as I felt might have been caught forever in a poem but somehow the muse refuses to work these days.”
Make this a block quotation
“black and yet so wonderful”
Unpack this quote- especially the "yet"
“the woman’s part of the game” is “the social side of the publishing business” (170). Soon
You need the bottom half of the sandwich
supplanting her envy for happiness with the visualized allure of the countryside,
This phrase is not clear to me. I think you need more context on what is happening in the plot.
In a less musical form of the lyric, Gwendolyn Bennett’s writings, specifically her diary entries and her essay “Last Night I Nearly Killed My Husband!” reflect the deceivingly sweet attraction of everyday pleasures, as well as the sexual violence and harm that come from artistic renderings of explicit female sexuality.
I think you need to establish a stronger connection between the song and the essay. The transition feels a bit abrupt.
wavers between the mundane and the richly figurative.
Love this sentence