Poetry of Loss and Self-Disgust: A Study of Eunice de Souza.
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2014-07
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Indian English women poetry can be viewed as an attempt at self- revelation, as there are determined efforts on the part of
the women poets to carve out an individual space of their own in the familial as well as social life. Women poets of the postindependence
era include Mamta Kalia, Sunita Jain, Gauri Deshpande, Suniti Namjoshi, Imtiaz Dharkar, Melanie Silgardo,
Eunice de Souza and so on. They give voice to their dissatisfaction, bitterness, and frustration. Eunice de Souza is one of the
most famous confessional poets of second half of twentieth century. Her poetry allow us to peep into her sufferings and
tortured psyche on the one hand and the paradox and complexity of the female psyche on the other hand. She reveals the
tensions and frustrations which a woman faces because of the discrepancy between the way she wants to behave and the
way she is made to behave. De Souza‘s dealing with love and sexuality in her poems show how she is dissatisfied with the
society which demands silent acceptance from a woman. She adopts an aggressive attitude, yet she is quite aware of the
―growing unrest‖ of her life that gives her pain and suffering.
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Alienation, Assertion, Frustration, Inner anguish,, Self-disgust
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SharmaAnju Bala, Gupta Tanu. Poetry of Loss and Self-Disgust: A Study of Eunice de Souza. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies. 2014: July; 1(7) 149-155.