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" punishment in kindergarten
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Kamala Das was born in Punnayurkulam, Kerala in 1934. Kamala spent several years in Calcutta, where she went to Catholic schools. She was married fairly early, before she finished her college. So she happens to be the only leading Indian English poet without a degree to her name. She began writing early and published her first poems in The Indian P.E.N. The first volume of her Collected Poems published in 1984 won her the Sahitya Academy award for 1985. Kamala Das has been typecast as a confessional poet. It is her brutal frankness of her verse that shocked and attracted readers. Kamala writes about sexual frustration and desire, of the suffocation of an arranged love-less marriage, of numerous affairs, of the futility of lust, of the shame and sorrow of not finding love after repeated attempts, of the loneliness and neurosis that stalks women especially.
Analysis, Explanation and Theme of Punishment in Kindergarten By Kamala Das
The poem is warm and muffled, and recounts the picnic of the poetess at Victoria Gardens to which followed it (as Kamala Das tells us in her autobiography). She was all alone near the hedge, while other girls were playing at a distance. The poem demonstrates the poet’s capacity to smell the flowers as well as the pain of being slighted. It has hardly any suggested larger meaning.
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The images used again are deceptively simple. In tune with the theme of the poem the images are evocative yet blurred. The teacher’s identity gets shrinked to a blue skirt but the words she ‘threw’ at her are still remembered as pots and pans. Though the image is a humorous one it shows the obnoxiousness of the assault. Words had hurt the young girl more than real hurts and today after so long they have taken a more materialistic from in the memory of the grown person. The image of the hedge and the sun is quite symptomatic of the introvertive nature of the poet and the subtle projection of her chronic loneliness unto a celestial object. The synaesthetic evocation of the image the smell of pain is remarkable for its zeugma.
It’s not only the above mentioned zeugma that adds the ting to the poem but also the simile, the metaphor, the metonymy and the personification in the following lines respectively – “throwing Words at me like pots and pans”, “That honey-coloured day of peace” “A blue-frocked woman”, “The years have Sped along, stopping briefly at beloved halts and moving sadly on.” Add the necessary and indispensible ring of poetry to the lines.