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A 4 page explication of Irish poet Eavan Boland's poem "Fever." Bibliography lists 3 sources, but the bibliography is incomplete.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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(Hubbard 40). These comments can certainly be applied to her poem "Fever," which uses fever as an extended metaphor that takes on different connotations throughout the poem. The title
of the poem also serves as the poems first word as the reader automatically connects the title to the first line, so that it reads "Fever...is what remained or what
they thought/remained after the ague and the sweats were over/and the sock of wild flowers/at the bedside had been taken away (lines 1-4). As the first stanza indicates, this long
first sentence refers to a high fever, one that causes the patient to sweat and tremble. Breaking such a fever takes time, which is indicated by the fact that the
wild flowers at the bedside have time to wilt and get discarded. The second stanza follows the pattern, continuing the long sentence and, therefore, also borrowing its beginning word
from the title of the poem. However, in this stanza, Boland changes the metaphor and brings in the definition of "fever," as it refers to marriage, i.e. getting married "in
a fever." Boland tells her reader that fever is also "...what they tried to shake out/of the crush and dimple of cotton,/ the shy dust of a bridal skirt" (lines
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its story of a "young girl sobbing her
heat out/in a small town for having been seen/kissing by the river" (lines 10-12). As these images demonstrate, the poet continues the conceit of fever in its association as
a synonym for lust, but the poet also connects this back to the image of flesh being in pain and suffering as it has been "lashed, hurt like/flesh as if
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