Conclusion Kamala Das is pre-eminently a poet of love, sex, lust, pain, nervousness, melancholy and frustration.
Love, the hunger of the flesh, hurts and humiliates, and gives only dissatisfaction. She is a confessional and autobiographical poet who writes candidly about her own experiences of frustration in love and drudgery in married life. If we go very carefully through Kamala Dass creations we can find out that Kamala Das has missed love, the most beautiful feeling in this world. It seems that only her father and grandmother had given her the love that she had always hungered for. This means that she failed to receive love from her life. The theme of love and lust occupies Kamala Dass mind and flows out in the form of poems. In Kamala Das we find much that is conventional and feminine, and she speaks aloud the needs and finds fears of a common woman and pleads for authentic love and sense of security of her, out of her own knowledge. When Kamala Das speaks of love outside marriage, she does not necessarily propagate the institution of adultery or infidelity, but seems to be merely searching for a relationship which gives both genuine love and impenetrable security. Thats why she sometimes gives a mythical framework to her search for true love, and identifies it with the Radha-Krishna Syndrome or with that of Mira Bai relinquishing the ties of marriage in pursuit of Lord Krishna, the true divine lover. Kamala Das is primarily a poet of love. Evidently, she is not so much preoccupied with a metaphysical quest or with a formulation of poetic theory as with an intense search for love. In a letter to Devindra Kohli dated 10th December, 1968, she admits that she began to write poetry with the ignoble aim of wooing a man. There is therefore a lot of love in my poems and the poems were composed with the sole objective of making a man love me and of breaking down in resistance. As a poet of love, Kamala Das looks most native, honest, and frank. Kamala Das may fall short of intellectual vigour and witty tit-bits, but she does not lag behind in lyrical outburst of unpremeditated thoughts and feelings and in emotional intensity. In truth she is more aware of pathos in the life of a common woman playing a very passive role in our tradition-bound society .And how bold and courageous is this lady of our land may be clearly judged from the fact that she articulates the theme of sexual love in such a frank manner that we are left wonderstruck at it. Kamala Das with her three poetical collections has succeeded very well in the realm of IndoAnglian poetry. Kamala Das may not have written much like Pritish Nandy or Nissim Ezekial; or like Monika Varma and Lila Ray among the Indian women writers. She may also not be as witty or intellectual as some other confessional poets of the world, or as some academic Indian poets like Shiv.K.Kumar and A.K.Ramanujan, but she excells them all in popularity and feminine sensitivity. She has her own range, her own cozy bower to relax in, and she moves therein with perfect ease and felicity.
Explicitly, nuns and spinsters might seek reasons to attack her, but she is a poet who has the power to hold her readers spell-bound right from the start.Devindra Kohli is right in pointing out that there is something in the tone and temper of Kamala Dass work which made one sit up from the very first poem . Linda Hess a ruthless critic of Kamala Das also concedes that a genuine poetic talent is at work here. There is a dualism in her writing .The dualism results from the fall from childhood innocence into the adult world of sexuality, marriage and life among strangers especially an uncaring husband. The interest of Kamala Dass poetry is not the story of sex outside marriage but the instability of her feelings, the way they rapidly shift and assume new postures, new attitude of defence, attack, explanation or celebrations. Her poems are situated neither in the act of sex nor in the feeling of love, they are instead ,involved with the self and it is varied often conflicting
emotions ranging from the desire for security and intimacy to the assertion of ego, selfdramatization and feeling of shame and depression. And, finally, we fully agree with the noted Indo-Anglian Poet, R.Parthasarathy, when he remarks that Kamala Das impresses by being very much herself in her poems and that her tone is distinctively feminine.
