A Report on “Writing Women’s Mythology:

The Poetry of Eavan Boland and Louise Erdrich” by Colleen Taylor

Research Methodology - Literature Group
Mehr 7th

In this paper, as clearly pointed out in the introduction, the writer tries to explore the similar
ways of two poets in using mythology and how they work in favor of creating a female voice.
Through the course of the body, which consists of 15 carefully-structured paragraphs, She uses
a number of arguments to support his perspective, mostly by suggesting references from the
poets’ works and gets to perfectly back up her arguments. The arguments she brings support
for, quoting her text, are:
- Erdrich and Boland clearly create a new female mythology and a unique female voice in their
poetry.
-The aforementioned similarities suggest a common consciousness, which, by the tone of their
poetry, is one of anguish and dejection at the difficulties presented by long-standing sexism.
-The poems assert the feminine perspective in Native American and Irish cultures as a sacred,
cherished perspective.
-This parallelism is suspended when comparing their mythological poems’ endings. The two
poets begin with the same tone, but end in contrasted ones.
As it is easily deduced, the central idea revolves around the femininity and its history of
oppression, which is also put in the same medium in both cases. In each of the components of
the body, the text shapes and follows the flow of comparison in a well-established order, firstly
going through the similarities and then pinpointing the crucial difference, which makes the text
potentially convincing. The use of sources, on the other hand, is frequent, mostly derived from
the poet’s works or their sources, which, altogether, plays a vital role in fulfilling the arguments.
Finally, in the conclusion section, as expected, there is a clear state of rephrasing the problem
and introducing the goal. The writer gathers all the provided information together once more
and addresses how the combination of the similarities and the differences matter, highlighting
her arguments which were all, factually and throughout the text, taken care of.