Significance of the title an Introduction by Kamala Das
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The poem 'An Introduction' begins by proclaiming that though she had no interest in politics, she knows the name of all who are in power, from India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru onward, also she claims that she can repeat all those names as easy as the days of a week or the names of months.
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The poem ‘An Introduction‘ begins by proclaiming that though she had no interest in politics, she knows the name of all who are in power, from India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru onward, also she claims that she can repeat all those names as easy as the days of a week or the names of months.
In next stanza we can see , poetess is very proud to say she is brown in color, not brown but ‘Very Brown’. First she introduces herself saying she is an Indian, then reveals her color is very brown, after that she is also proud to be born in Malabar. soon Kamala Das express her disagreement with the argues of her friends, visiting cousins, critics and all, every body asks her not to write in English language because it’s not her mother-tongue. Poetess will to tell them why are they not ready to leave her alone? Then she tells that “I speak three languages, write in Two, dream in one”. She complaints that why can’t she speak the language she like? the language she speak is her’s, and it’s distortions and queerness-es are her’s.
Despite the request from her friends and family poetess says that, lion roars, cawing is to crows, and likewise Kamala Das use her own style of language that can express her longings, hopes and joys, thus it is useful to her. And it is a human speech of the mind that can see, hear and aware, it’s not an abstract speech like deaf and blind speech of trees in storm, monsoon clouds, the rain or of the incoherent mutterings of the blazing Funeral Pyre. For Kamala Das, her speech is coherent, because it has a meaning.
The use of symbols like ‘Incoherent muttering of the blazing Funeral Pyre’, Deaf and blind speech of storm, monsoon clouds, rain, sounds and roars of Crows, Lion etc. are the very strong and powerful explosion of her tough and strong disapproval to her colleges’ and relatives’ opinion.
Now, Poetess starts to reveal something private from her life. Kamala Das always portraits her painful situations in her sexual life. Here in the poem An Introduction, author tells…
“I was child, and later they Told me I grew, for I became tall, my limbs Swelled and one or two places sprouted hair.”
She was a child but her parents told her she has grown up, but it was only in means of her height, she got hair in her secret parts and her limbs are swollen. Kamala Das asked for Love, her father brought a young boy age of 16 into her bedroom and closed the door.
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