LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Treatment of Love and Sex in Kamala Das’s Poetry

Manju, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.

Abstract

In the history of Indian English poetry, Kamala Das is a well known, interesting and controversial poet in post-colonial era. The best thing about her poetry is the openness and the frankness which is unusual in Indian context. Her style of writing best expresses the feminine sensibility and its suppression in the male dominated society. Our country is having a patriarchal system in society. Man is considered as the head of the family as well as owner of its members. Female is the main sufferer in patriarchal system. Man assumes himself as the owner of female’s mind as well as body. Husband-wife relationship is also not an exception.

This paper focuses on husband-wife relationship as depicted in the poems of Kamala Das.

Keywords: Frustration, Unsuccessful.

Kamala Das’ Love Poems

Kamala Das holds a prominent place in post-colonial era. Poetry was in her blood as there were two poets in her family: her mother and maternal uncle. Kamala Das being a bilingual writer writes in two languages, English and Malayalam. Her poetic output in English is thin. It consists of three slender volumes: Summer in Calcutta 1965, The Descendants 1967 and The Old Playhouse and other poems. Most of the poems from her two volumes The Decendants and The Old Playhouse and other poems are love poems.

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Manju, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.
Visiting Faculty
Delhi College of Arts and Commerce
New Delhi India
manju.chhikara10@gmail.com
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