Confessional Poetry Essay

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Confessional Moods in the Poetry of Kamala Das Deepak Kumar 1, Ms. Varsha Verma 2 1(Prof. Department of English, H. N. B. G. U. Srinagar, Garhwal (U.K) India) 2(Research Scholar, Department of English, H. N. B. G. U. Srinagar, Garhwal (U.K) India) drdeepakkr74@gmail.com verma.varsha98@gmail.com ABSTRACT: Confessional poetry can be analysed as an extension of the stream of consciousness technique developed and modified by modern writers. It is a branch of present day poetry there is no place either for religion or ethics in this poetry. Her poetry is concerned both with the external and internal world. It is a kind of narrative and lyrical verse which deal with the fact and intimate mental and physical experience of the poets own life. Confessional …show more content…

Confessional poetry representing the poets own circumstances experience and feelings, Kamala Das extends her poetry as a challenge against the customary male administration. The poetry uncovers private or loveless marriage issue about him or her including sexual experience mental anguish and sickness. She expresses her desire through her poetic words. In the worlds of Swati Guleria, Confessional element also help to expose how patriarchy assigned only sexual identity with to women and that too not independent of patriarchal will as well as bring out the major difference that mark a great void between men and women. According to this difference, men hanker after pleasure, whereas women crave for an ideal niche full of love, care, mutual respect and a sense of thankfulness for what she does for the man instead of taking it for granted. (Guleria 2007p. …show more content…

Her confessional poetry also deal between fulfilment and an unfulfillment love in her life. For her poetry is something deeply personal. Summer in Calcutta has a large number of love poems bearing different shades of love. She herself admits that in her poems there is too much love. In her autobiography My Story she expresses that, “Love has a beginning and an end but lust has no such faults.” (My Story 2009 p. 178) Failure of love and the birth of poetry seem to be significantly related to each other in Kamala Das’s poetry. She recollected all stuff of her past incidents and write down on paper with honest treatment in her poetry. All her pain and frustration she has been pen downed in her poetry. She feels in the absence of pure love a person life is similar to a prisoner in her own house. She looks everywhere for love but she get it only in her dreams. In the words of Mosoumeh M.

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