Atlantis— A Lost Sonnet
Eavan Boland * Track #1 On Domestic Violence
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Atlantis— A Lost Sonnet by Eavan Boland
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From Boland’s 2007 collection Domestic Violence, this sonnet ponders the nature of Atlantis, the mythical lost city, and comes up with an interesting solution for its ontology.
The poem is less about the lost city of Atlantis and more about loss, grief and memory. The city can be interpreted as a m...
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How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals—had all
one fine day gone under?
I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city—
white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe
what really happened is
this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word
to convey that what is gone is gone forever and
never found it. And so, in the best traditions of
where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name
and drowned it.
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When did Eavan Boland release Atlantis— A Lost Sonnet?
Eavan Boland released Atlantis— A Lost Sonnet on Mon Jan 01 2007.