ON LAKSHMI PRIYA'S POEMS
'But Iam/Free as a bird
Seeking life/In fissures of light
I have bloomed/To cry,
To savour,/To pour,/To scald,
To exult,/To sink,
And/To be reborn...'
-Kutty Revathi
Lakshmi Priya's poems are intimate and privately symbolic,yet they also immediatelyand unmistakably speaks on themes that can share.As much as her experiences and the way she writes them hold out an alternative to a masculinist aesthetics.She explores obsessively her self-identity as a woman in her poems.The significance of her poems lies in the manner in which the themes are presented,through a series of images with deep resonance,simplicity of diction and the tenderness of feeling. The poems rest fully on suggestiveness rather than on overstatement.We hear the voice of a woman addressing herself in the poems.Again and again she is trying to know the cause of femininity-through its critical representation of the varied ways in which women have been forcedto accommodate their sense of self to the demands of the changing society.The momentum of the poems, in its turn,brings out a fundamental revision ,both of the image of the poet,and the cultural space within which she now functions.Though there aren't any direct evidence of personal suffering and gender victimization visible in her poems, there are hints to indicate the fundamental anguish of 'woman hood'in it.
Seeking life/In fissures of light
I have bloomed/To cry,
To savour,/To pour,/To scald,
To exult,/To sink,
And/To be reborn...'
-Kutty Revathi
Lakshmi Priya's poems are intimate and privately symbolic,yet they also immediatelyand unmistakably speaks on themes that can share.As much as her experiences and the way she writes them hold out an alternative to a masculinist aesthetics.She explores obsessively her self-identity as a woman in her poems.The significance of her poems lies in the manner in which the themes are presented,through a series of images with deep resonance,simplicity of diction and the tenderness of feeling. The poems rest fully on suggestiveness rather than on overstatement.We hear the voice of a woman addressing herself in the poems.Again and again she is trying to know the cause of femininity-through its critical representation of the varied ways in which women have been forcedto accommodate their sense of self to the demands of the changing society.The momentum of the poems, in its turn,brings out a fundamental revision ,both of the image of the poet,and the cultural space within which she now functions.Though there aren't any direct evidence of personal suffering and gender victimization visible in her poems, there are hints to indicate the fundamental anguish of 'woman hood'in it.
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