Love and Women's Identity in the Poetry of Kamaladas

Kamala Das is a prominent Indo-English poet. She had explored the problemof her positionasawoman and a writer in post-colonial India. The main themes of Kamala Das’s poetry areloveand women's identity and through them comes the women’s voice. The present study analysessome of the most powerful poems of Kamala Das, explores the way in which she voices thediscontent of the marginalised women, and the man-woman relationship in a frank andstraight forward manner. She protested against male domination, imposed sex and discriminatorysocial norms which made her feel lonely. Kamala Das writes incessantly about love or rather the failureof love, her unhappy personal life her unsuccessful sexual encounters and relationships. KamalaDas’s poetry has with stood barrage criticized and critical analysis for long because thereisanhonest protest in it. This study focuses primarily on the inner mind of the poet and the mystictensions of a woman seeking her identity and the journey of self from the blazing light andheat towards a lucid darkness and a sense of disintegrating into nothingness.