Manuscript Number : GISRRJ203395

Feminist Sensibility in the Poetry of Gauri Deshpande and Mamta Kalia

Authors(1) :-Dr. Mohan Lal Mahto

There are number of women poets hailing from different corners of our country namely, Kamala Das, Sujata Bhatta, Eunice de Souza, Suniti Namjoshi, Gauri Deshpande, Mamata Kalia, etc. who represent female problems in their verses. Gauri Deshpande is a minor poet with three collections of poems- Between Births (1968), Lost Love (1970) and Beyond the Slaughter House. She presents various aspects like love, sex and marital relationship. She explores intricacies and conflict of man woman relationship in her poems. Like Deshpande, Mamata Kalia is very frank and straightforward in expressing the feelings and complaints regarding love, sex, family and man woman relationship. For instance, she delineates the problems faced by women in the tedious life in household chores in her poem titled “I feel Like Crying All the Time”. In another poem titled “I am a Great Fool” she presents the poet’s sense of boredom in her matrimonial relationship. Other poems like “Love Made Housewife out of Me”, “I Must write Nicely, Now”, “Matrimonial Bliss”, etc. show Mamta Kalia’s concerns regarding women’s predicaments in male dominated society. This research paper attempts to explore and analyze women’s problems represented in the poems of Gauri Deshpande and Mamta Kalia.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Mohan Lal Mahto
Assistant Professor of English, P.K.Roy Memorial College, Dhanbad (Jharkhand) (A Constituent unit of Binod Bihari Mahto Koyanchal University, Dhanbad, Jharkhand)

Confessional, Frustration, Man-woman relationship, Predicament, Pain and suffering, Patriarchal society

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 1 | January-February 2020
Date of Publication : 2020-02-20
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 162-167
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ203395
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

Cite This Article :

Dr. Mohan Lal Mahto, "Feminist Sensibility in the Poetry of Gauri Deshpande and Mamta Kalia", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.162-167, January-February.2020
URL : https://gisrrj.com/GISRRJ203395

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