Eavan Boland’s poem “It’s a Woman’s World” focuses on the sensitive subject of gender roles and equality. She speaks on the tradition lifestyle many women find themselves trapped in and what it would take from them to escape. Boland encourages women to embrace their true strength in order to overcome the limits placed on them from society. The poem talks about several different aspects of womanhood, but all are stated as a means to portray an image of strength in women, in addition is makes a comparison to woman stuck in societal constraints in effort to inspire the fiery spirit needed by women to break free. From the start Boland knows that women have much more strength and power than they are given credit for. In lines 5- 8 she states,
