Paper - 210
Name - Nehalba Gohil
Roll no - 15
Topic :- Feminist Approach in Kamala Das's Poems
Enrollment no - 4069206420210009
Email ID - nehalbagohil26@gmail.com
Batch - 2021 - 23
MA - sem 4
Submitted to - S.B. Gardi Department of English M.K Bhavnagar University.
Conclusion
Feminism brings to scrutiny the portrayals of gender roles which tends to impose social norms ,customs, conversations ,laws, and expectations on the grounds of gender discrimination. It looks into the relationship between men and women with a new insight especially with regard to the accepted gender roles. The dis love extinction of Indian women naked form. The major preoccupations of these modern poets include love in its various moods and forms, marital ties, companion affection, familiar relationship quests of life and death and few social concerns besides gender issues and Feminine sensibility and Feminine quest for identity and space. Most of the Modern women poets have revealed an intense concern for the pivotality of life, love and several intricacies and ironies of the present day in the lives of men women - relations.
Modern poets have dared to speak out their minds . And pronouncing their anxieties, agonies and angers in high, brazen tones is something unprecedented about Indian women . Feminism in India started reviewing how women in the past had been tethered to the orthodoxy of tradition and how the shackles of oppressive patriarchy had restrained them from speaking out their mind . Modern women poets, though speaking of individual experience, have represented the woes . Things common to all women are Sense of frustration, inner conflict, inner disintegration, Sense of fear, pain and silent suffering, persecution complex and mental agony represses feelings of suppressed desire, sense of meaningless restlessness and hopelessness in life and identity crises. Women have been leading a life of unwilling compromise with the given imposed circumstances.
Modern Feminist thought came into Indian English poetry with Kamala Das . A bilingual writer of English and Malayalam who had changed the scenario of the Indian women in. Culture society. She is a poet who emerged as a staunch rebel against the customy patriarchal arrangements. In Indian society. Her tone of writing is distinctly feminine her perspective is utterly Feminist and full of dissent. Her works in poetry included Summer in Calcutta, The. Descendants, the old Playhouse and other Poems present her autobiographical and confession modes of her life . Her dissatisfaction and frustration in love sex and marriage form the leitmotif of her verse . In much of Kamala Das's poetry the stuff is no different. It is the attitude of the speaker, she brings mostly a female one to subjects such as marriage love and sex that are different. What the British author and critic the feminist movement seems to have a ring of truth in it.
The title Feminist attributed can also be unequivocally extended to Kamala Das even though her first few volumes of poetry were published during the movement's condition in contemporary society. In her. Poems the first person account of women's sexual encounters description of the plight of the women have thoughtly made the picture of suffering women complete. Hence the protests against the male domination became the soul of poetry of Kamala Das. Kamala Das got eminence gradually as a confessional poet with growth in expenses. She has used the confession mode in most of her significant poems. They articulate the umpteen pressures and pains that a woman in modern India has to encounter the umpteen pressures and pains that a woman in modern India has to encounter in her journey from restraint to freedom and from tradition to modernity. In most of her love poems there is an implicit dramatic tone of Browning's monologue but the confession poetry is dramatic not speculator
One of the common features of Das’s poetry is the honest expression of her privacy. Thishonest expression of Dad's personal life is what Mary Erulkar called “the bitter service of womanhood” (Naik 218). But a closer observation it becomes clear that it is not a “Nudity on sheets of weeklies,’ nor a wanton display of ‘thigh and sighs’, nor yet merely a case of ‘from bed to verse’, Kamala Das’s persona is no nymphomaniac; she is simply ‘every woman who seeks love’; she is ‘the beloved and the betrayed’ (Naik 218). However, she remains the eternal Evewho proudly celebrates her essential femininity
Summer in Calcutta is a Poem of Love, sexual desire & dreams, and the poetess’s personal & private twitches. Kamala Das has beautifully incorporated the symbolic & figurative terminology into the poem.
If it is seen through another lens, it could be understood that the poem is expressing the revolt and rebellion, the feminist movement against patriarchy and male domination.
Significantly, Summer in Calcutta by Kamala Dass takes us to think of several elements that prevail in her years. The poem brings us closer to women’s studies, freedom of speech and expression, human rights and violations, gender bias and equality, and feminism.
Through this chapter, we find Kamala Das' poetry is confessional.Most of the poems are an expression of the sufferings of her own life.We find a young child in the poetess who is craving for love and attention which she had enjoyed in her childhood days at her grandmother's house. We also experience her tortures and sufferings as a subjugated wife in 'The Old Playhouse'. The poetess is able to move the spirit of her readers along with making her experiences alive before them. The next chapter will describe the historical background of theIndian English Prose.
