THE COLOURFUL WORLD OF WOMEN IN POETRY offers insights into the simple and knotted issues of life that are faced by female writers and thus presenting a female perspective in their poetry. The long journey undertaken by them eventually establishes a stable female poetic tradition. From ‘no-entry-ladies-forbidden’ to a powerful and magnetic destination of a new “second” world […]
T.S Eliot And Modern Hindi Poets
Indian response to T.S.Eliot, a myth or a mantra, has been haunting our literary pundits since he quoted the Upanishadic aphorism ‘Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata’. Explicitly or implicitly Indian response to T.S. Eliot has taken the form of the exploration of Indian thought in his work as well as his impact on Indian literature. His impact […]
F T Prince’s: The Wind In The Tree: An Analysis
Published in CRITICISM AND RESEARCH Dept. of English Vol 6 1983-84 The Wind in the Tree is a one-image poem of four lines, with the rhyming scheme of a quatrain, abba. The theme of the poem is frustration in love. The narrator is presented as confronting the situation with a spirit which may be described […]
Poets At Work
When we talk about poets we have a picture of a delicate man having long hair with a paper and pen sitting near a brook, oblivious of the humdrum of pulsating world, waiting patiently for the divine Muse to visit him. Possessing a finer sensibility, they are born not made. Socrates speaking about his impressions […]
“Writing like a Woman,”: The poetry of Jean Arasanayagam
COMMONWEALTH Essays and Studies Dijon France Vol. 15, N 2, Spring 1993 Sylvia Plath’s poetry suffers from the consciousness of neurosis and the feeling of “damnation on this earth”, the poetry of Nikki Giovanni fights with the most abysmal evil in the world, the poetry of Jean Arasanayagam in “mournful melodies” struggles with both the […]
