WOMAN'S DEFIANCE AGAINST FATE IN THE WORKS OF KAMALA DAS AND JUDITH WRIGHT

<p>The present paper attempts to underline<br>the peculiarly feminine tone and temper in<br>their poetical utterances. The paper being<br>of comparative nature draws illustrations<br>at places to focus on their similarities or<br>dissimilarities (as the case may be) in one<br>way or the other of all Indian English<br>poets, Kamala Das occupies a distinctive<br>place by her strong subjectivism, her fiery<br>imagination, her sweep of verses, and her<br>unique power of evoking the pathos of<br>womankind. In my view, Kamala Das is<br>'The most aggressively individualistic'<br>because she has an inward eye and a<br>thinking mind to look into the passions and<br>pathos of women and to lay blank the<br>secretive depths of their delicate hearts.<br>And she does so with all the integrity of<br>her character and all the compassions of<br>her heart, as a true 'confessional' poet.</p>