To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

I had two topics originally, but I'm leaning toward one of them now, and hopefully I can pull some material from the other one in. I'm going to look at how twentieth century Irish poets treat the aisling, or woman-as-Ireland, trope--from Yeats, who bought into it really hard, to contemporary women poets such as Boland, Ni Dhomhnaill, and McGuckian who reject it in various ways. My other topic was going to be mythologized/historicized Irish landscapes in poetry, and I'm hoping to bring that in in some capacity of, like, colonial "mapping" through poetry (like in Spenser)-->revolutionary/postcolonial "mapping" on women's bodies with the aisling trope at the beginning of the twentieth century-->post-postcolonial "mapping" of new spaces, such as Boland's suburbs, instead of women's bodies in contemporary poetry. That's moving more towards dissertation-length, so I'll have to pare it down somewhat, but that's the basic idea. :)