Feminism And Femininity Analysis

Abstract

Feminism and Femininity are different attitudes. There are many aspects of feminism in the context of the different movements with different dexterity and different vigour, different verve with different depths of understanding. Feminist poets are largely of the fair sex. Their attitudes differ in belligerence, power and passion of pulling down and punishing wrong doing. In feminism the protagonists have the strength of a theoretical understanding. The poignantly penned poems of seven very renowned poems are talked about in this article. Femininity – womanliness is forging ahead in women’s writing. Pain, suffering, neglect, cruelty and thoughtlessness are making men beasts. Even then their feelings as women do not become belligerent

Her first book Echo was published in 2003, second one affair de Coeur in 2009, the third Vignettes of Sea in 2010 and then came out From the Biography of an Unknown Woman in 2015.

Reading habits like eating or drinking vary from person to person and I felt that the work here is replete with observations, repetitions, statements and expression of feelings which are limitless as the ebbs and tides of the ocean.

Writing a critique of Indira’s latest book is not a run of the mill affair. The work is about the myriad facets of woman’s life, trials, and tribulations, feelings of pain and very rare sweet pleasures and infinite hues in deep feeling. Though the title says unknown woman, as the poet tells us in the beginning these are vignettes culled from the lives of many women she came across into very close mental proximity. There are a number of poems but none has been given a title. This is particularly significant since each poem is a wailing, a different breath, a different spasm and very little smiles of joyousness. Among these there are a few, just few, about faith devotion and happily

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This is another picture of femininity:

On a rugged and jagged, hilly terrain she stands as a lone tree, in full bloom; to bloom is her nature. (p.11)

She’s the dark wave she is the dark sea.(p.12)

Here is the picture of another woman as expressed in her biography:

If you chance, to dive deep into the sea; there you find her, one among the many species, that naturally survive, at unfathomable depths. (p.14)

There is another whose age is left for anybody’s guess as seen by the poet. A never to be asked question is that of a woman’s age, according to our unwritten book of decorum.

She stands as a bystander on the speeding highways of life the passing vehicles leaving her dizzy

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A spectator for ever she remains. (p.17-18)

Some flowers are cherished as the most venerated. With her flair for talking about beauty and other aspects of women, the poet also considers the feminine is the handiwork of Mother Nature.

A parijaatha that flashes

In the silence of pre-dawn a perfumed dawn

A punnaga that flashes down to earth meteor like