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Kamala Das's poetry reveals her personal thoughts and anguish of her failed married life. She employs various imageries and symbols in her poetry which usually depicts confessional subjects. The symbols used in the poetry are common things meant to describe the personal meaning she attached to them. In her poem "The Sunshine Cat", her mental and physical breakdown is depicted with her words "they let her slide from pegs of sanity" which describes their insensitive attitude towards her. The imagery of building "walls with tears" shows the defensive mechanism and her distrust of men. The depiction of the male body is shown in the lines : "clinging to their chests where  New hair sprouted like great-winged moths, burrowing her  face into their smells" The poem "The Freaks" too depicts the image of the lustful male body which regards as an agent of corruption. Her husband is hungry for carnal thirst and this excessive desire makes

Balu is the only son of Margayya, the chief protagonist of the novel 'The Financial Expert'. From his childhood, Balu has been nurtured as a pampered child by his parents because they had no children for years after their marriage, that's why Balu remain too precious to them. This later culminates in him becoming a spoiled child with no purpose in life. Unlike his father, he doesn't possess any cleverness and hard-working attitude. He never performs his only duty of studying. All his life, Margayya works day and night to ensure a comfortable life for Balu but he never stands up to his father's expectations of making a big man. Margayya took pains to help Balu pass High school, even indulges in corrupt practices but it was no use. Balu tore all his hopes and left his home. He began to work as a "sandwich boys" in Madras, he was working there diligently and honestly unlike his earlier traits. We see a change perhaps due to his excessive hate towards stud

Poet: T.S Eliot, a modern poet and a Nobel Laureate for Literature The poem is a dramatic monologue ( a poem in which the narrator speaks to a silent listener). Our narrator is Mr Alfred Prufrock who is introvert, not extremely introvert. He is a middle-aged person with bachelor status. In fact, he leads a lonely life and he talks a lot but to himself.                     "There will be time, there will be time                  To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;" The serious issue with him is his inability or fear to do things; he procrastinate (delay) and unlike its title, the poem is not a not a love song but an overthinker's dilemma to act or not. H is a 20th century Hamlet, a character in Shakespeare's play Hamlet who is famous for his "to be or to be not, that's the question." Prufrock is always in dilemma about his unknown "overwhelming question" which causes pain to him. But he clarifies that he is not like Haml

The Poem "Portrait of the lady" features the constraining relationship of the young narrator and the mature lady. The lady shows the indirect signs of unrequited love or attachment towards the young man but he doesn't feel the same way or we can say that he is not interested in any serious relationship with the lady. The lady tries her best to win his heart with her loneliness and self-pitying. She maintains her kind attitude with him, showing how much she cares for his friends (him) and how it's difficult for her to live this wretched life.              " How much it means that I say this to you —                Without these friendships — life, what  cauchemar !"  She tries to advise the man to open himself and not to hold back while he is young. The young man has an art to remain indifferent, at least on his facial expression and "remain self-possessed" But we know how much he strives to counter or ignore her ill intentions. Whenever

The life represented in the novel shows the futuristic version of our world. The world has reached the zenith in the field of technology. People are governed by World Controllers. There are Ten World Controllers who run the government at the peak level. Their governing motto is: "Community, Identity and Stability." Children are not born here, they are nurtured in a lab where they are conditioned by Hypnopaedia (learning by hearing while asleep). Certain fundamental norms of the society are transferred to their minds with the above technique. They regard Henry Ford as an equivalent of Christ. Their A.F (After Ford) refers to the number of years according to their calendar. The division of the society remains static throughout their lives. They are classified into as follows : 1) Alpha  ------------- Privileged class 2) Beta    ------------- Privileged class 3) Gamma  ---------- Lower class 4) Delta     ---------- Lower class 5) Epsilon   ---------- Lower class Pe

The poem "The End and The Beginning" is penned by a Polish author named Wislawa Szymborska who was a Nobel laureate for Literature in 1996. The poem depicts the impact of a war on the affected region and upon its inhabitants and huge destruction and problems it causes. After the end of every war, native people have to work hard to clean the mess and ruins caused due to this violent business. People must clean the roads blocked by rubble so that the vehicles carrying corpses can pass through. Someone has to work through sludge and pick all the trash including sofas, shards of glasses, blood-stained rags. Weak and damaged walls need to to be repaired and the windows need new glass to be fitted into it. The doors have to be set back into its frame. During the war and just after it, a lot of media coverage reached the region so as to make an exclusive story out of this and show the situation to the outer world. As there is a universal fact that negativity gets the maximum att

Margayya is the protagonist of the novel "The Financial Expert" written by R.K Narayana. Margayya is quite suitable for a tragic hero. His shrewd and hardworking character leads him to the heights of wealth from being broke. Making wealth is his sole wealth throughout his life and there is no limit to his lust for money. But he has no interest in living a lavish life and doesn't spend money in extravagant things except an umbrella. In spite of all his flaws, we love his character because he lives his life with pragmatic principles which are must for survival in a brutal world. He is considered as a genius in financial matters and later in the novel  people regard him  as a 'wizard'. In the beginning, he helps villagers in getting loans from the Cooperative bank and makes a living for this work. He never admits this work as a business in front of the villagers, he tells them it is a merely a social service to help those poor souls. His genius is again exhibited w

Confessional poetry is a style of poetry which deals with the personal and intimate thoughts, mental distress and individual experience. Often the themes presented in this type of poetry has elements of taboo issues. The term confessional was first used by M.L Rosenthal in a review of Robert Lowell's Life Studies entitled "Poetry as Confession". Other notable confessional poets include Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell. In order to publish such poetry, a great amount of courage and mental resilience is needed. The structure of the confessional poems are usually the same; they don't have any defined Rhyming scheme and are written in Free verse. This may be due to the fact that the poet outpour his/her predicaments and private thoughts on the paper and to make it more coherent is the last thought (s)he has. Kamala Das was one of the prominent poets whose poetry's main feature is confessional and autobiographical. In her autobiography "My Story&q