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UMA BHALIYA H.M.A.PART-1(SEM-2)

ROLL NO:01

AN INTRODUCTION – A CONFESSIONAL POEM

PAPER: 7 INDIAN WRITING IN

ENGLISH – POST INDEPENDENCE

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• What is a called confessional poets

• Kamala Das is a confessional poet

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• What is confessional poetry

• An introduction – a confessional poem

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Define her identity. lyric – “question of human identity.” questions relating to a woman’s or an indian

poet’s identity in english. new aesthetic in poetic terms. “ I speak three languages, write in/two, dream in

one.” novel in malayalam and poetry in english. transmutes her “joys”, “longing” and “hopes”. “ the speech of the mind.”

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“ The language I speak Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernessesAll mine, mine alone. It is half English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest.It is as human as I am human………”

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- DEVERSHI SIR