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.
Love as a theme of the poems actually took a very important place in the collection. These love poems often contain different emotions. There are poems expressing the author fall in love with someone or poems expressing painful feelings about missing someone else. One interesting thing I noticed is that the
Discovery can be found in different understanding for different people and renewed a perceptions of ourselves and other. Also this process can be provocative and confronting which can be develop and changes. Harrison’s construction of setting immediately creates connotations of misunderstanding to Dolly’s family and white society. Also show how discovery has been altered by the past experience of the aboriginal women, Gladys and Dolly. While, in the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Hensley highlight the misfortune disease that he suffered create misunderstanding of his life.
Poetry Analysis Once the poem “History Lesson” was written numerous poetry foundations celebrated it for many reasons. “History Lesson” not only makes an impact on literature today it has also impacted people also. This poem inspires people and moves them to the point to where they can find a personal connection to the poem itself and to the writer. Not only does it hold emotional value for those who were victimized and those whose family were victimized by the laws of segregation, but the poem is also celebrated for its complexity. The poem uses many techniques to appeal to the reader.
The cultural struggles of the American Indians in Natalie Diaz’s In When My Brother Was an Aztec, “Mercy Songs to Melancholy” and “The Gospel of Guy No-Horse” “To be, or not to be” is the question. Explaining yourself by dancing or making an observation on someone feeling can be easy and difficult. Natalie Diaz’s “Mercy Songs to Melancholy” and “The Gospel of Guy No-Horse cope with the substances of acquired abuse in reservation life. Told from differ point of views, each poem share line break catharsis likeness.
In “The Trouble with Poetry”, and “Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins focuses on the issue of forced inspiration, and the lack of appreciation readers, and aspiring poets have for the feel of poetry. In “Introduction to Poetry”, Collins mentions that some poetry enthusiasts try too hard to find the meaning of a poem; to try and decipher it like some ancient hieroglyphics, that they forget that poetry is not an essay and does not necessarily have to have a distinct message. In stanza’s seven and eight, the speaker states that poetry should be felt, and that what one poem means to a group of people could have a completely different effect on another group. In stanza eight “Feel the walls” is the speaker’s ways of saying that one should feel a poem and let the poem speak to them, instead of searching for what they believe to be its true meaning.
Poetry is a very unique type of writing. Poetry allows people to express their emotions in a way they feel comfortable. Every poem has a meaning to it, whether it is talking about food, interest, or a moment in their lives. Readers often mistake the poet as the narrator, although in many cases this is true. Many poets are the narrators and the poems are about their personal life.
Topic: The complex relations between fathers and children in the poetry of Robert Hayden, Rhina Espillat, and Theodore Roethke Thesis: the historical backgrounds and family settings of Robert Hayden, Rhina Espillat, and Theodore Roethke have contributed to the expression of complex father and children relationships in some of their poems. Williams, Pontheolla T. Robert Hayden: A Critical Analysis of His Poetry. University of Illinois Press, 1987.
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Rina Morooka Mr Valera Language Arts Compare and Contrast essay on “The poet’s obligation”, “When I have fears that I may cease to be”, and “In my craft of sullen art” The three poems, “The poet’s obligation” by Neruda, “when I have fears that I may cease to be” by Keats, and “In my craft of sullen art” by Thomas, all share the similarity that they describe poets’ relationships with their poems. However, the three speakers in the three poems shared different views on their poetry; the speaker in Neruda’s poem believes that his poems which were born out of him stored creativity to people who lead busy and tiring life, and are in need of creativity, while the speaker in Keats’ poem believes that his poems are like tools to write down what
Love and romance are a common genre found in poetry, where one is able to express their true emotions toward a particular person or thing. Love itself has come to represent both the emotional and personal connection between two lovers. Pablo Neruda, a renowned Chilean poet, explores the concept of love and separation in the form of the poem, “I can write the saddest verses.” In this poem, Neruda communicated his longing for his past love, whom he still loved at the time. While the words of the poem create an effect and feeling in the reader, which is related to the sad aspects of losing relationships, more can be uncovered about Neruda.
Love can exist as affection, infatuation, obsession, pleasure and in many other ways, as love is abstract. Hence, there is no one single interpretation of love. Love is a theme that has been embedded into language and literature over the centuries, yet due to the ever changing perception of love people continue to search for a universal definition of love. Poems are able to showcase the inner feelings and desires of a poet as well as their own unique views on love. Nevertheless, through poems “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, “Mother in a Refugee Camp” by Chinua Achebe, “The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!”
The boundless grief of mother India for her heroic sons, who were killed in alien lands, is poignantly expressed in the poem. The brave sons of India were killed in different climate and in strange lands. Their bodies were burnt in “alien graves’ without any concern or love or a tear. They attained martyrdom in the World War
Modern poetry is in open form and free verse. It is pessimistic in tone, portraying loss in faith and psychological struggle which is quite different from the fixed forms and meters of traditional poetry. Secondly, modern poetry is fragmented in nature, containing juxtaposition, inter-textuality and allusion. It has no proper beginning, middle or end. Thirdly, modern poetry is predominantly intellectual in its appeal, rather than emotive.
VEDANT VASHIST YEAR 10 ENGLISH CLOSE READING- POETRY Poetry is a type of writing in which the outflow of emotions and thoughts are expressed by writers in rhyme, comparisons and representations. Poetry has been used for a significant long time to show humor, romance and to impart feeling to others, for example, it could be about something interesting, exciting that happened on your approach to class and you want to recall it. In now days, poetry has been used as lyrics as a part of the subject matter of the song. The song "just the way you are" by Bruno Mars and the poem “Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare are a piece of poetry.
Anita Desai 's first novel, Cry, The Peacock, softened new ground up Indian English fiction and is said to be a pioneer. It has been termed as 'a wonderful novel ' by the pundits. Cry, The Peacock speaks the truth conjugal disharmony, absence of personality, idealism, and a feeling of aimlessness of life. Much has been composed on the subjects and style of Anita Desai 's novels. Diverse states of mind to destiny and submission to the inevitable exhibited in her novels are additionally considered in this work.