It's a Woman's World

How does Boland use the word "milestone" as a metaphor in the poem, It's a Woman's World?

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Using the metaphor of "milestone," which is a marker on a road, Boland expresses that the speaker and other women measure their lives by the "oversights," or tasks they have forgotten to do.

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