The Excellence of Kamala Das’s Technical Skill in her Selected Poems

Abstract

Kamala Das has emerged as one of the leading female poets in Indian Writing in the English language. In other words, she has made a mark as a female Indo-Anglican poet; and she has made a substantial contribution to Indo-Anglican Literature. She has achieved greatness as a poet not only because of the contents of her poems but also because of her technique of writing poetry and her craftsmanship, in addition to her command of the English language. She has a vast range of vocabulary; she understands the precise meanings of words, and she can differentiate between the shades of meanings. A command of the English language is naturally the first requirement of an Indian poet writing in English. In this paper, eight poems by Kamala Das have been randomly chosen to find evidence of the technical aspects besides her command over the English language.