In the poem entitled Ghanashyam,Kamala Das is addressing Lord Krisna and, in the course of this monologue, she speaks of the relationship between her husband and herself in terms of disappointment and frustration,saying that she had once played a husk-game because her husband had needed her body to satisfy his lust for her and because,each time his lust had been satisfied, he used … Kamala Das and Her Poetry. Her love of poetry began at an early age through the influence of her great uncle, Nalappatt Narayana Menon, a prominent writer. The other poem about her motherhood has the title of The White Flowers. This book traces the origin and growth of Kamala Das as a poet through successive stages. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography. Kamala Das is pre-eminently a confessional poem and , in this respect , she may be regarded as an outstanding Indo-Anglian poet . The confessional She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's issues, child care, politics among others. Kamala Das‘ ancestral home and her grandmother, plays an important role in the maximum images she has employed in poetry. Confessional poetry is written by a poet under an internal pressure in order to give vent to his or her grievances or feeling of resentment or a sense of the injustice experienced by him or her. For her, the conception of the God and the faith is interpreted in a wrong way by the society and considers Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2000 - 164 pages. Krishna is the mythical lover, and The poetry of Kamala Das is a search for the essential woman, and hence the woman persona of her poems plays the various roles of unhappy woman, unhappy wife, and mistress to lusty men. Kamala Das makes frequent use of the Radha-Krishna and Mirabai legends to provide a mythic frame-work to extra-marital sex in her poetry. Her love of poetry began at an early age through the influence of her great uncle, Nalappatt Narayana Menon, a prominent writer. 2 Reviews. A. N. Dwivedi. She remembers the fortunate time of her past and feels nostalgic in the present. This Book Traces The Origin And Growth Of Kamala Das As A Poet Through Successive Stages. Kamala Das Poems Characteristics - Kamala Das being highly critical of the society seeks the help of divine who is, for her, ‘the ultimate guide’. Kamala Das once said that she tried to imitate her mother Nalapat Balamani Amma (born 1909), who was a well-known poet writing traditional poetry in her mother tongue which was Kerala. Like her mother, Kamala Das also excelled in writing. Already at an early age, Kamala Das turned to writing poetry influenced by her maternal granduncle, the scholar-poet Nalapatt Narayana Menon. 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