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Makale Özeti:
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Kamala Das (1934-2009) is one of the members of the poetic trinity of
Indo-Anglian poets, the other two being Nissim Ezekiel and Ramanujan. Her poetry
is characterized by extreme sincerity and integrity; she speaks out of her lovelongings,
frustrations and disillusionments with a disarming frankness. She writes, it
seems, for therapeutic purposes. It is a kind of psychological striptease that she
enacts in her poetry. As she herself has put it “I must let my mind striptease, I must
extrude autobiography. Her own self is at the very centre of the three anthologies of
poetry that she has published upto date, as also at that of her prose-works. Of her
prose-works, ‘My Story’, her autobiography, is most important of it throws
considerable light on her poetry. It shows that in a male dominated world, she tried
to assert her individuality, to maintain her feminine identity, and from this revolt
arose all her troubles of psychological traumas and frustrations. A bird’s eye-view of
her poetry would serve to clarify the point.
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