~ SOURCE: Women's Writing and Self-Authorship in In Her Own Image by Eavan Boland, in Colby Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, March 1991, pp. 48-59. In the following essay, Allen-Randolph. ~ Eavan Boland born in Dublin, Ireland died in Dublin Irish poet and literary critic whose expressive verse explored familiar domestic themes and examined both the isolation and beauty of being a woman, wife, and mother. Boland was educated in Dublin, London and New York, which required him to move. This article aims to explore the marginalized female voice by reading the poetry of Eavan Boland. In addition to textual analysis, Boland's critical essays on the lives of Irish women, collected in Object Lessons 1994, will be discussed. The aim of the study is to help shed light on the plight of Irish women and Boland's efforts to destabilize them. In the poem Warhorse, Boland, through the use of nature, describes destructive images. growth, one of the dead without cries. Boland, through the use of assonance, slows down the pace of the poem. The crocus metaphor conveys the inhumanity of men. Boland personifies,