How Is Kamala Das Poem

Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief,” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” both illustrate female character’s who struggle when they face the tragic loss of their children. In their short stories, Mukherjee and Lahiri both incorporate the journey of grief a mother faces, however both texts offer a vast difference surrounding each woman’s attitudes toward losing children. While Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief” and Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” both highlight the overwhelming grief that surrounds the loss of children, Mukherjee’s story allows the interpretation of a protagonist holding onto hope, and finding the strength to accept her tragic loss and move forward. In Lahiri’s story, by contrast, no real acceptance

The poem Prayer before birth illustrates to us the innocence of a foetus and how society affects children growing up in the world. The title of the poem suggests and introduces to us that the poem is about a foetus praying for guidance and support through life and hints that the poem is a “prayer”. Although as the poem wasn’t written by a child but in the perspective of a child, it may also be a prayer for safe delivery of a baby from a mother or father. To introduce the idea of the poem being a plea from a foetus is shown through the repeated statement of “I am not yet born” at the start of each stanza.

In ‘The Deliverer’, the poet takes advantage of the first person point of view, as it serves to develop ongoing themes of infanticide in Indian Society. This technique of first

Women in India were unaware of their miserable condition. It is in the post independence period the women’s quest for identity of her own commenced. The 20th century saw the shift from outer to inner sensibilities and no one can better understand a man or woman better a feminine writer. In modern English fiction a number of women novelists have arrived on the literary scene, they have set out making new forays in to the world of women. Nayantara Sahgal being a feminist writer has emphasized in her novels on freedom and a new definition of the New Women. Sahgal’s heroines are well aware of the injustice done to them in their marriage and they come out of this traditional bond.

The spacing and structure of the poem is set up to allow flow and momentum in the poem and its narrative. The speaker’s voice is present with emotion as emphasised in a natural rhythm of thought offering an honest and bare interpretation of motherhood. The open “blank space” of the poem encourages a calm and breathy atmosphere, fulfilling a mood of tranquility and bliss. Each stanza is short with a couple quick fragmented thoughts before closing each section with the power of a single word. Each stanza breaks apart a separate thought filled with a loving passion the speaker uses to stress the beauty, wonder, and over-flowing love present in motherhood. To better the structure, the poem itself is broken into three parts, each representing a stage of motherhood. The first segment of motherhood that is represented is during the moments while the baby is still in the womb and the mother waits in anticipation for the baby to arrive. This “honeymoon” phase is expressed with a tone filtered through a perception of rose-coloured glasses and excitement as the mother is in utter bliss to carry a life into the world. The

Mothers are God’s greatest gift to humanity. Each one of us has the fear of losing our mother, and so has the poet Kamala Das and through her poem “My Mother at Sixty Six”, she portrays her sudden realization that her mother has grown old and may pass away any time.The poem revolves around the "Fear of loss". The poem expresses the anguish of a daughter over her mother’s advancing age and the fear of permanent separation from her. “My Mother at Sixty Six” symbolizes the fast running of life and the inevitable death of our childhood

Shashi Deshpande is one of the famous contemporary Indian novelists in English. She writes about the conflict between tradition and modernity in relation to women in middle class society. Shashi Deshpande’s novel deals with the theme of the quest for a female identity. The complexities of man-woman relationship especially in the context of marriage, the trauma of a disturbed adolescence. The Indian woman has for years been a silent sufferer. While she has played different roles-as a wife, mother, sister and daughter, she has never been able to claim her own individuality. Shashi Deshpande has emerged as a writer possessing deep insight into the female psyche. Focusing on the marital relation she seeks to expose the tradition

Arundhati Roy was born in 1961, her mother a Christian woman a native of Kerala and her father was Hindu from Bengal. Because of the divorce of her parents, Arundhati spent her early years in Aymanam with her mom. The influence of her childhood years are revealed her writings structurally and thematically.

Traditions and practices differ through cultures, but one practice that never changes is that women give birth and care for children. As Robert Browning once said, “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” A mother’s unconditional love for their children is unmatched by any other forms of love. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini effectively expresses the true meaning of motherhood. “A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Mariam. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed, it won't stretch to make room for you.” (Hosseini 27) This quote shows that one of the most contrasting factors that positively separate women from men is motherhood. The quote reflects the unconditional love a mother has for her children, and this is evident in the novel through Laila. Laila’s first child, Aziza, was illegitimate as it occurred outside of marriage with Tariq. After the news of Tariq’s death, she agreed to be married to Rasheed, a man she barely knew, and masked Aziza as their child. Laila’s inclining marriage with an abusive man who already has a wife shows her infinite love for her child that was still to be born. For most, marriages are a joyous occasion and a representation of true love. Yet, Laila willingly gave hers up to protect her daughter. Furthermore, the unfeigned love of a mother is evident in Laila’s birth of her second

Giving birth is believed to be a joyous and fulfilling milestone in a woman’s life. One expects a mother to bond with her child almost instantaneously from the point of conception. However, it is not uncommon for women to experience doubt and regret before birth and postpartum depression after giving birth. The poems “The Victory”, “Metaphors”, and “The Mother” center on motherhood, yet they transmit different messages about the subject. The authors convey their respective messages through the use of diction, tone, and imagery.

The poem “The Birth” represents the everyday life of a doctor who delivers babies. This poem depicts the delivering of a baby by a forty year old woman named Para and how long it took for it to come out and the pain that the woman is feeling during the contractions. Finally the baby starts to move towards the exit and weighted in at thirteen and a half pound named Madonna. The doctor’s frustration of waiting for the baby to come tires him.

It is rightly said by Abraham Lincoln that "No man is poor who has a mother."Mothers are God's most noteworthy blessing to mankind. Every one of us has the trepidation of losing our mom, thus has the writer Kamala Das and through her lyric "My Mother at Sixty Six", she depicts her sudden acknowledgment that her mom has developed old and may hang loose. The lyric rotates around the "Apprehension of misfortune". The ballad communicates the anguish of a little girl over her mom's propelling age and the apprehension of changeless partition from her. "My Mother at Sixty Six" symbolizes the quick running of

Thus, to give voice to the suffocated psyche and suppressed desire of woman and lay bare ambitions and frustrations and soothe the aches and pains has been primary focus in Deshpande’s writing. Her works show that compromise is what characterizes the life of the common run of the middle-class women in India. Unable to defy social conventions or traditional morality,

The political and social events of the sixties and the seventies along with growing opportunities of education and employment for women encourage women belonging to the urban middle class to engage in literary activities. The thematic concerns of these women writers have been cantering around women related issues. The social setting for most of these writings is the urban middle class and the protagonist is, more often than not, a woman. Indian Culture treats women with utmost reverence. Women are identified with Adi Shakti or the primordial energy. Woman’s avatar as mother treated as highest manifestation of human relationship; It is the mother who gets precedence over all other principles of life including father and god in importance. She

The burden of motherhood can prove to be far too tough for some women in today’s society. One habitually is informed about a woman who either abandoned her child for adoption to a firehouse or even worse, which could be better, left unmentioned. Some mothers can fill the role of motherhood and beyond. The female who filled this niche in my lifetime was Zulma Enid Saldaña. Not only did she go above and beyond with her role as my mother, but also surpassed expectations as a father in my life as well.