Abstract:
The love poems of Kamala Das usually breathe an air of unconventionality and urgency. Mark the following extract in this connection-“Of late I have begun to feel a hunger/To take in with greed, like a forest-fire that/Consumes, and with each killing gains a wilder,/Brighter charm, all that comes my way.” Kamala Das’s poetry is concerned with both the external and internal worlds, and her response to the external world, in particular despite her inner restlessness, is marked by an admirable sense of poise and perfection.
Introduction:
Kamala Das is primarily a poet of feminine longings. Her poetry and prose reflect her restlessness as a sensitive woman moving in the male-dominated society, and in them she appears as a champion of women‟s cause. She raises her forceful voice against the male tyrannies in such poems as “A Relationship”, “Summer in Calcutta”, “An Introduction”, and “Marine Drive”, and in such essays as “Why Not More Than One Hundred?” and “What Women Expect Out of Marriage and What They Get”. In them she comes out …show more content…
Another poem, “My Morning Tree” deals with the familiar theme of desperate longing for fulfilment. Its images are sharp, structure is carefully organized, and mood poignantly objectified. In it the poet looks forward to the moment of the blossoming of “a sudden flower‟, though the images like the „ugly tree‟ and the „fleshless limbs‟ of the tree give no hope of this blossoming. The poem is one of dark despair; and the sense of fulfilment which so strongly dominates poems such as “Winter”, “A Phone Call in the Morning”, “Love”, “Spoiling the Name”, “In Love”, is here imagined and telescoped but not without involving the cost of an almost brutal irony, for the blossoming may not only come too late but may be the end itself. The „passive‟ limbs of her desires and passion will flower into a „red, red morning flower‟ of
The love poems of Kamala Das usually breathe an air of unconventionality and urgency. Mark the following extract in this connection-“Of late I have begun to feel a hunger/To take in with greed, like a forest-fire that/Consumes, and with each killing gains a wilder,/Brighter charm, all that comes my way.” Kamala Das’s poetry is concerned with both the external and internal worlds, and her response to the external world, in particular despite her inner restlessness, is marked by an admirable sense of poise and perfection.
Introduction:
Kamala Das is primarily a poet of feminine longings. Her poetry and prose reflect her restlessness as a sensitive woman moving in the male-dominated society, and in them she appears as a champion of women‟s cause. She raises her forceful voice against the male tyrannies in such poems as “A Relationship”, “Summer in Calcutta”, “An Introduction”, and “Marine Drive”, and in such essays as “Why Not More Than One Hundred?” and “What Women Expect Out of Marriage and What They Get”. In them she comes out …show more content…
Another poem, “My Morning Tree” deals with the familiar theme of desperate longing for fulfilment. Its images are sharp, structure is carefully organized, and mood poignantly objectified. In it the poet looks forward to the moment of the blossoming of “a sudden flower‟, though the images like the „ugly tree‟ and the „fleshless limbs‟ of the tree give no hope of this blossoming. The poem is one of dark despair; and the sense of fulfilment which so strongly dominates poems such as “Winter”, “A Phone Call in the Morning”, “Love”, “Spoiling the Name”, “In Love”, is here imagined and telescoped but not without involving the cost of an almost brutal irony, for the blossoming may not only come too late but may be the end itself. The „passive‟ limbs of her desires and passion will flower into a „red, red morning flower‟ of