“Sacerdotisa ou sacrifício?” As tarefas domésticas e o ofício poético na poesia de Eavan Boland

Autores

  • Virginie Trachsler Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197760

Palavras-chave:

Eavan Boland, Poesia, Trabalho doméstico, Pintura

Resumo

Este artigo analisa a relação entre o trabalho doméstico e a poesia de Eavan Boland. Como muitas outras poetas de sua geração, Boland tinha uma relação ambivalente com o ambiente doméstico, pois bem sabia da perigosa tendência de confinar a poesia feminina a esse espaço. Minha intenção neste artigo é mostrar como Boland modificou a relação da mulher poeta com a “musa doméstica”. Com base em poemas retirados principalmente, mas não exclusivamente, de suas duas coleções publicadas no início dos anos 1980, In Her Own Image e Night Feed, e colocando sua poesia em diálogo tanto com sua escrita crítica da época quanto com duas de suas principais influências americanas, Sylvia Plath e Adrienne Rich, este artigo argumenta que Boland considerava a rotina doméstica como possibilitadora do seu ofício poético ao invés de um impedimento. O trabalho doméstico forneceu um modelo para o trabalho poético e permitiu à poeta preencher a lacuna entre o ofício poético e outras artes, como como pintura, que estava ligada à sua mãe-artista. O objetivo de Eavan Boland era tornar político o poema doméstico e, ao fazê-lo, mudou a paisagem da poesia irlandesa escrita por mulheres.

Biografia do Autor

  • Virginie Trachsler, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

    Virginie Trachsler is a PhD candidate at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, she is preparing a dissertation under the supervision of Professor Clíona Ní Ríordáin. Provisionally entitled “Ambassadors to the silent worlds: the writing of objects in the poetry of Irish women poets”, this research project focuses on the poetry of Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paula Meehan, Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey and Doireann Ní Ghríofa. She completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, while also spending a year as a Language Assistant at Trinity College Dublin and one as a French Lectrice in Oxford.

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2021-05-23

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Trachsler, V. (2021). “Sacerdotisa ou sacrifício?” As tarefas domésticas e o ofício poético na poesia de Eavan Boland. ABEI Journal, 23(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197760