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797 Shodh, Samiksha aur Mulyankan (International Research Journal)—ISSN-0974-2832 Vol. II, Issue-6 (Feb.09-April.09) AGONY AND FRUSTRATION IN THE POETRY OF KAMALA DAS * Dr. Bhosale B. S. The poetry of Kamala Das has the unique place in Indian poetry in English particularly written by women poets. She has developed the feminine poetic sensibility. There is an expression of her personal and public experiences in her poetry. The ideas, which she has expressed in her poems and in her autobiography, My Story, appear to be similar. She has written a great deal of inward - looking or ‘confessional poetry’. Her poetry is confessional because therein she has revealed her secret thoughts and feelings. Whatever she has disclosed about herself does†¦show more content†¦When soul-love is frustrated, lust becomes a subterfuge for the man of sexual passivity. The poet brings in silence as an influence that transforms loneliness into obsession with sex† (Nair, K. R. Ramachandran, 1993:9). She has her frustrated and disillusioned empty heart. She thinks that her husband * Lecturer in English, Smt. Sushiladevi Deshmukh Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Latur (M. S.) †¡ÃƒÅ ÃƒÅ Ã…“, ‚ââ€"ŠÃ‹Ë‡ÃŠÃŠ †¢ÃƒÅ Ãƒâ€™Ã¢ â€žU ââ€"ŠÃ Ãƒâ‚¬Ãƒ ¿ÃƒÅ Ã‚ ¢Ã¢Ë†â€˜Ã‚ §Ã… ¸ (†¢Ãƒ £ÃƒÆ'⠁„U⠁„UÊCÔ˛UËà ¿ †¡ÃƒÅ ÃƒÅ Ã…“  ¬Ãƒ Ãƒ ²ÃƒÅ Ã¢Ë†â€˜Ã‚ §ÃƒÅ )—ISSN-0974-2832,Vol. II, Issue-6 (Feb.09-April.09) is only a creature of lust. There are only animal passions in his mind and nothing emotional and spiritual. There are no feelings and emotions in her sexual partner for the gratification of her animal desire for sex. The Freaks paints a rather helpless situation when the man is passive and the woman is burning with desire but she becomes helpless. She can’t find the real love except sex and lust in her husband. Actually she is hungry for the real love, but she is deprived of this. As a result, she is tired of her life. â€Å"Kamala Das’ love-relationship is a complex phenomenon which involves tensions of different kinds. The basic tension is caused by her failure to get love in ab undance which for her is synonymous with spiritual fulfilment.† (Amga, H.L., 2000:169) The fact that she is able to make this fine discrimination between love and lust in male-dominated society, it makes her realize that she is a freak.Show MoreRelatedConfessional Mode in Poetry of Kamala Das3267 Words   |  14 PagesCONFESSIONAL MODE IN POETRY OF KAMALA DAS Confessional mode of writing has its virtual origin in the mid50s in America. It is hybrid mode of poetry which means objective, analytical or even clinical observation of incidents from one’s own life. Confessional poems are intensely personal and highly subjective. There is no ‘persona’ in the poems. ‘I’ in the poems is the poet and nobody else. 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Gillian Beer, Professor of English at Cambridge University and chairperson of the Booker prize committee, praised the book for its linguistic inventiveness, its narrative power and its courage.† (1997, The Telegraph) Kamala Das (1999:32) thinks that Arundhati Roy used English â€Å"as a play thing† whereas Anita Desai (1999:30)2 Congratulates Arundhati Roy for giving legitimacy to Indian English.3 The l inguistic inventiveness of Arundhati Roy has such a wide range that it isRead MoreA Multicultural Society By Patricia L. Silver Essay1452 Words   |  6 Pagesgiven as much importance as her grandmother Kamala. In fact, it is from her grandmother that she feels the inspiration to cross the continent. Here, the grandmother emerged as a substitute to her parents. She is bold enough to maintain the entire household full of female members and Sonil’s great-uncle Raj who is almost an insignificant figure. In her first novel The Journey, Indira Ganesan also lays much emphasis on Renu’s relation with her grandfather Das. However, the author too tries to bring out