It’s a Woman’s World | Plot Summary
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In the first stanza of “It’s a Woman’s World,” Boland introduces the idea that women’s lives have remained largely unchanged throughout history. Boland’s use of a clichéd phrase as the title sets the poem’s somewhat bitterly ironic tone. The first word of the poem, “Our,” refers to women, as the poem’s title indicates that the poem’s subject is the female sphere. Her reference to “a wheel” alludes to another clichéd phrase, “since the invention of the wheel,” which generally means “since humans started using tools,” or...
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