The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me
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Have a little read: ... Commentary on "The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me" by Eavan Bolland To: Mrs. Monty From: Harsh Kothari Word Count: 1082 The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me by Eavan Bolland reflects on the last of a love life of a couple during pre-war Paris using a symbol, a 'Black Lace Fan'. Bolland achieves this through the use of weather imagery, the changing of his tense from past to present, and using literary features such as simile, metaphor, personification and repetition. In the first stanza of the poem, Bolland disconcerts the reader by using the diction "it" twice, though representing different things. The first 'it' represents the lace and the second 'it' is used to substitute the climate of the setting. "It was stifling. /A starless drought made the nights stormy." This quotation starts building up the tension in the reader's mind because of the suffocated feeling the poet creates by mentioning
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