Pdf english poetry started with henry loius vivian derozio, when he. I dont know politics but i know the namesof those in power and can repeat them likedays of week or names of. Her poetic works are evaluates with wellknown poets like robert lowell, anne sexton, as well as sylvia plath. As a bilingual indian english postindependent and postcolonial poet, she was an iconoclast protested against the discrimination to women, and hegemonic position of male over female was staunchly attacked in her all works, mapping out the story of. The poem becomes a statement on gender differences and a move to transcend the restrictions imposed on a woman by seeking individual freedom, love that allows the body to come to terms with its own needs and a self that is allowed to celebrate loves true glory. She is one of the very few poets who talks so openly of her passion.
The poet says that she is not interested in politics but. An introduction, a poem included in kamala dass first volume of poetry, summer in calcutta1965, begins with a statement that shows her frank. The poetess is aware of her gender and status in the society in which she born and brought up. In the poem, she introduces herself as typical brown color indian. A confessional poet is one who takes the reader into confidence about his or her personal and private life, and reveals those facts of her life which an ordinary person, even if that person be a poet, would keep strictly to himself or herself because of the. In the poem, she speaks in the voice of a girl, rebelling against the norms and dictates of a patriarchal society which ask her to fit in and belong against her own wishes. Once she was asked to read a poem that i had composed and when the visitor asked who wrote it, our principal said, shirley of course, she is a combination of beauty and brains, and then there was from the governors wife a special kiss. What means the metaphor the hungry haste of river and the oceans tireless waiting. This should be considered an important poem for more than one reason. Addressing her husband in this poem, she bluntly reminds him that he had been allowing his saliva to flow into her mouth and had poured himself into every nook and cranny of her body. Narasimhaiah has pointed out, she is perhaps the only indian poet who owes little to. The women in india are supposed to get married early otherwise they might be considered as either bad women or women with defect. The poem carries with it most of the themes which one associates with her poetry, themes of love, sex, loneliness, courage, selfexposure and search for identity. What do you think about the tradition of marriage at early ages.
International journal of english and education 177 issn. A confessional poetess, he is laying her inner heart bare, but one should not take it for that she is a simple girl, but is coquettish and intriguing. The poem, my grandmothers house, first appeared in kamala dass first anthology of verse titled summer time in calcutta 1965. The poem is a strong remark on patriarchal society prevalent today and brings to light the miseries, bondage, pain suffered by the fairer sex in such times. I dont know politics but i know the namesof those in power and can repeat them likedays of week or names of months beginning with nehru. One day suddenly she hangs herself to death in the privy. An introduction is kamala dass most famous poem in the confessional mode. Kamala dass poem an introduction is included in her first collection of poems, summer in calcutta.
It is because kamala dass writings titillates and has its leanings on seduction unambiguously look at how she arouses the reading public with an air of exotica as found in her poem introduction, 5. Keralas sahitya akadami award 1969 for the poem thanuppu, meaning cold. This particular piece is one of her most wellknown. A search for indianness in the study of kamala dass poetry and autobiography mayur r. She is reminded of the ancestral house where she had received immense love and affection from her grandmother. Major themes of kamala dass poetry literary articles. I dont know politics but i know the names of those in power, and can repeat them like days of week, or names of months, beginning with nehru.
She follows the school of feminism while writing this poem. I speak three languages, write in two, and dream in one. Dec 12, 2014 an introduction is kamala dass most famous poem in the confessional mode. She was brought up in the warmth of a closeknit kerala matrilineal society and she felt uprooted when she had to move to kolkata with her father who was a.
Her ignorance of politics and british rulers within the indian society which is a rebellious act against colonizers and their. First of all, the poem makes a very clear and significant statement relating to the question why some indian writers choose to write in english rather than in an indian language, for instance in their mother tongue. What do you think the author wanted to say with this poem. Writing to her, always served as a sort of spiritual therapy. This paper will lead the readers to explore the colonial issues in kamala dass poem an introduction. For her, the conception of the god and the faith is interpreted in a wrong way by the society and considers it as ancient virus that has been nurtured in the soul and she thus rejects the popular belief and quests for the apt path of the divine in. She has felt like a prisoner in her husbands house, the windows of which were. This poem exposes the grieves and sorrows of women in this society after getting married and she gave her voice against the womans life living in a patriarchal society. It is also an autobiographical poem in which the poets longing for her parental house in malabar is movingly described. The collection focuses on love and the pain that follows betrayal.
Kamala surayya the name means saptarishi or the ursa major, in persian took the literary world by storm in the midsixties, has created a permanent place for herself in the contemporary indoanglian poetry. Nani, is a maid who worked for kamala dass family at the time when she was a kid. Her popularity in kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in english, written. An introduction is a poem which provides a focus for an exercise in autobiography. An introduction and stone age a feminist approach to. She is from a well versed literary family of malabar. Polytechnic, ahmedabad abstract the paper, a search for an indianness in the study of kamala dass.
Most importantly, this poem illustrates kamala dass daring innovativeness and as prof c. Each and every line of the poem is a capsule, zipped to comprise all her sadness and strong objection to the patriarchal society. Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. On 31 may 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in pune, but has earned considerable respect in recent years. Agravat shri chimanbhai patel institute of business administration, ahmedabad rita dabhi l. If i had been a loved person, i wouldnt have become a writer.
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