SEMBLANCE OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE POEMS OF KAMALA DAS AND HABBA KHATOON: AN UNDERLYING DESIRE FOR FREEDOM

  • Rafaqat Zehra, Dr. Sarika Varshney

Abstract

The semblance of subjectivity to the poetry of Kamala Das and Habba Khatoon, in spite of demarcations of the ages, developments and verbal communications, unveil all the essential constants in the milieu of womanhood. An excellent amount of the continuing distinctiveness is vital constituent of their nature as they are destined to be women, but abundant of the qualities are as an outcome of the assignment billed to them by society and culture. Their relation to men in a variety of societal settings and intellectual circumstances has fabricated in them firm attributes that are general. Poetry of Kamala Das and Habba Khatoon disclose that how exciting nature presumes the form of complex and difficult ride towards the derivation. Revisit to the derivation takes to the form of extraction from outside and acknowledge self-absorption. This self-importance in its turn supposes the shape of aloneness, longing, downheartedness, boredom and mystic rise of self. A female’s past has completely been a wretched one, administered and ordered by male customaries. Crawling in the direction of upcoming destinies, the poets Habba Khatoon and Kamala Das, have accomplished something to an enormous level, although not abundantly, to rupture the restrains of their captivity and tyranny and reveal their worth to the whole universe. The human race has began to scrutinize their worth and proficiency.

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