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Women\u27s Voice in the Poems of Sylvia Plath
No full textWomen share equal rights and responsibilities in society but unfortunately, they suffer a lot based on their gender. Since time immemorial, women have been subjected to innumerable atrocities in humankind. Sylvia Plath has been a prominent figure in 20th century American literature. She is a well-known literary figure worldwide for writing on womanhood and a leading figure in the feminist literature of the 1960s. She has written about the woman, her sufferings, search for identity, and struggle to lead a happy life in her works. The present paper discusses her poems in which she has shown the condition of women in society. She has examined the problems in the poems like ‘Jailor’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Mushroom’, ‘The Applicant’ etc. are some of her poems that present the miseries of women that Sylvia Plath has faced in her life
Exploring New Aesthetics of Tribal Poetry with Reference to Korku, Pawari and Banjara Dialects
Get PDFGond, Korku, Bhill, Pardhan, Madia, Pawar, Santhali are some tribal communities settled in the hills and forest of India. Many of them are found spread in Maharshtra. The area called Gondwan has the largest number of Gond and Pardhan communities, and once they had their territory there. Similarly, the Korku tribe is settled in the Melghat area of Vidarbha and Pawari in the western region of the Sahyadri. During the course of time, they lost their script, but they were able to preserve their dialects and culture, which is rich and erotic. They sing several folk songs at the festivities and cultural gatherings. Now, due to the spread of education and facilities, many talented poets and writers from the communities have come forward and produced a lot of literature, particularly poetry. They used Marathi script for their poetic expressions. The poets like Ramgopal Bhilavekar in Korku dialect, Santosh Pawara in Pawari dialect and Dr. Veera Rathod in Banjara dialect are some of the important names whose poems in their respective dialects have been taken for the study.
This research article is an attempt to bring fore the tribal consciousness expressed by them and a serious and novel attempt to explore their aesthetics with some examples by translating them into English. Hopefully, it will provide an international platform for these tribal senses and sensibilities and bring before the developed world community the richness of rebellious thoughts and a beautiful cadence of content essential in their short but simple compositions
Men Without Women: Exploring the Literal and Literary Phallocentrism in Murakami’s Works
Get PDFThis paper aims at exploring the texts of Haruki Murakami, namely his novels Norwegian Wood (1987) and Kafka on the Shore (2002), and an anthology of short stories Men Without Women (2014), to observe with a close eye the phallocentric tongue, literary devices, characters, and plot; the depiction of a man’s world through a quintessential male gaze. Studying his art of characterization and the recurrent motifs he employs towards that very realization are a key reference point to understand the covert stance of Murakami, which appears to be misogynistic in its stead. Murakami creates his fictional women with certain key characteristics omnipresent in almost all of them, their exhibition of ludicrously unnatural and overt sexuality as if deliberately strengthening a stereotype of the seemingly new “modern woman” who has no qualms in expressing her sexuality even to near-strangers. While his protagonists, in most cases heterosexual men, in every literary creation of his are blueprints of the same man, most probably either Murakami himself or someone he aspired to be like but failed and compensated for it by creating numerous men in that lonely ideal nihilistic image, one around whom women lose all sense of autonomy and give themselves up entirely, to what Murakami literarily depicted as a mysterious muscular charm. In Murakami’s literary world, the men are there to fulfill their destinies whereas the women are there for the men
The Heterogeneity of Story Writing Edited by P. V. Laxmiprasad
Get PDFThe Heterogeneity of Story Writing Edited by P. V. Laxmiprasad Published by Authors Press, New Delhi, ISBN: 978-9352070381 2015, 469 pp, Price Rs. 1900/
Bridging the Gulf: A Critique Rajiv Khandelwals,’ Conch Shells And Cowries Reference: Love Poem, ‘Word’
Get PDFAs an unconventional and innovative poet in contemporary modern Indian Writings in English, Khandelwal’s Conch Shells and Cowries, his first Anthology, holds him apart from other present-day writers. In appending such a title to his anthology of love poems, Khandelwal has rationally developed a unique style of his own. His poem ‘Word’, and others in the anthology are not only cloaked in numerous symbols and other figures of speech but are also innovative in their unique structure, form and content. In this manner, he has paved the path for a new concept of writing in expressing his ‘love thoughts,’ pertinently in singular pounding words that nail him as an innovative poet of the 21st century. Khandelwal has thus, effectively established the trend for post-modernist, futuristic poetry in the realm of Indian Writings in English for which he deserves recognition as an eminent poet
“If you’re white, you’re right”: Bone of Contention between the Black and the White as Reflected in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Get PDFRacial discrimination can entail overt, direct antagonism from the white community to those who belong to unrepresented racial groups. Discrimination can also be subtly planned out and sneaky. Racism in its subtlest manifestations is evasive and confusing. Many countries, especially Europe and North America, have intense institutionalized racism. Ralph Ellison\u27s popular book Invisible Man, which won the Pulitzer Prize, captures the attitudes of many white Americans against racial rights (1952). The 1952 book Invisible Man describes how the so-called white American culture deliberately and cunningly continues to ignore black people. More so than their Native American identification, it is because of their socioeconomic or cultural differences. We\u27ll talk about the second book from the perspective of cultural racism. Harper Lee also examines the unreasonable attitude toward race and class in her groundbreaking book To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). The incidents in this book have implications for the author\u27s life
THE ART OF WINNING THE HEART : A review of Nandini Sahu\u27s A Song, Half & Half by Dinesh K Mali
No full textA Review of Nandini Sahu\u27s A Song, Half & Half by Dinesh K Mal
The Fractured Self: A Statistical Analysis of Child Psychology in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times
Get PDFThis research is conducted using content analysis, quantitative and qualitative in its approach, to address the images of child psychology in Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854). Placed against this background of the novel of critique of Utilitarian education and industrial society, the research is that Dickens depicts systematically the deforming effect of the repression of the imagination, of emotional deprivation and of conditioning by machines, in the psychological deformity of the child characters. The approach includes operationalization of the main psychological variables of Imagination Quotient (IQ), Emotional Resilience (ER), and Moral Reasoning Index (MRI) and monitoring their development over the narrative trajectory of a sample of child characters (Louisa, Tom, Sissy, and Bitzer). The study hypothesizes that there is no significant negative relationship between exposure to the Utilitarian system of Gradgrind and healthy psychological development through systematic coding of textual evidence, and some kind of descriptive statistical analysis. The outcome is very much in support of the hypothesis where it is depicted that there were sharp statistically significant differences between the psychologically stunted Gradgrind children against the more integrated Sissy Jupe. The thesis of this paper is that the novel is a complex and information-filled developmental psychology case study that foresees the current appreciation of how environment influences the child’s mind. The results highlight the timelessness of the humanist challenge of the systems by Dickens that reject the needs of the developing self in a holistic manner
Spiritual Love in the Prose Poems of Rajkumari through The Pedlar and Baul Beggar
Get PDFRajkumari de Silva is a poet from Colombo who has been at the Prashanti Nilayam Ashram in Andhra Pradesh since 1981. Only just few poets in India have composed spiritual prose poems in post-independence Indian English poetry. Rajkumari\u27s works are mostly published by Writers\u27 Workshop under the names \u27Ananya: One Alone,\u27 \u27Ferryman! The Paddler,\u27 \u27The Bowl Baggar,\u27 \u27Lord I Forgot,\u27 \u27Template Bagger,\u27 and \u27Ravindra and O My Fakir!\u27 She also has three books of writing named \u27Rama Jaya Jaya,\u27 \u27The Supreme Sound,\u27 and \u27Gan Diva and Anu.\u27 Rajkumari De silva\u27s poetry is love poetry in which she expresses her heavenly love for her god, for whom her heart lingers and her soul longs. The poet in Rajkumari has received spiritual ambrosia from Sri Sathya Sai Baba\u27s ghats. Rajkumari is a poet who knows the language of love via quiet rather than words. She goes through more than she communicates. She has experienced the Lord\u27s everlasting love in unfathomable ways. This paper aims at highlighting the spiritual note of the poet’s love and devotion to the common man as well as God. The paper will also throw light on the mystic self of the secluded poet
Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the Light of the Bhagavad-gita
Get PDFEmily Dickinson, now a celebrated poet, is still studied more from the subjective angles which belittle her stature than the objective ones which may contribute in highlighting her genuine poetic worth. This perspective is a modest attempt to decipher Dickinson’s poetry in the light of the Bhagavad-gita, the flashes of which are flashed in her concept of soul, self, non-attachment, renunciation, equanimity, happiness within, removal of false ego for peace and rejection of sense objects for a higher taste. A few relevant excerpts from the Bhagavad-gita and Dickinson’s poems have been analysed to trace out the spiritual light that reveals the path leading to her invisible connection with India. In her poems, she exhorts like Krishna of the Bhagavad-gita and reveals the truth of the material existence while making her journey from outside to inside. The application of the objective approach helps in bringing out the real worth of Emily Dickinson and contributes in connecting the threads of her poetry to the other parts of the world claiming for a universal appeal of her poetry