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Kamala Das’s poetry is most often identified as confessional poetry. “My Mother at Sixty Six” can also be identified as such. She is as open and uninhibited in this poem as she is in her other famous confessional poems, such as “An Introduction.” My Mother at Sixty Six: Analysis The poet describes her mother’s ageing… Continue reading My Mother at Sixty Six Analysis by Kamala Das

About the Poet– Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Suraiyya after her conversion to Islam in 1999) was on born 31st March 1934 in Thrissur, Kerala. She spent most of her childhood in Calcutta in a family of artists, where she felt ignored and unloved. In her teenage she married an older relative, and the emotional and… Continue reading Line by Line Meaning of My Mother at Sixty Six

“Endymion”, in many ways signifies a romantic culmination of Keats’s firm belief in the immutability of beauty, and of its claim to a legitimacy vis-à-vis its permanence, and its ability to conjure, or “contextualize” the truth. The poet’s aesthetic view of beauty as an intransient source of pleasure and joy comes in the face of… Continue reading A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Summary and Analysis