Critically analyse the autobiographical
elements in Kamala Das’s “An Introduction”.
Answer: Kamala Das is one of the members of
the poetic trinity of Indo-Anglican poets. The other two beings are Nissim
Ezekiel and Ramanujan. She has been called a poet in the autobiographical or
confessional mode. The autobiographical or confessional poets deal in their
poetry with personal emotional experiences which are generally taboo. There is
ruthless self-analysis and a tone of utter sincerity. The facts are not always
true but there is no dedication at all from emotional truth. Confessional or
autobiographical poetry is a struggle to relate the private experience with the
outer world as it is. Such a struggle is in evidence in the poems of Kamala Das
from a very early stage...................................................
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