MOTHERHOOD – OPPRESSION AND DELIGHT
The ambivalence in maternal experience and attitude is reflected in a variety of poems, which focus on the theme of motherhood. Imtiaz Darker’s poem “Zarina’s Mother,” reflects Marxist Feminism in an even more powerful way. The poem depicts an elite woman who is also a mother, watching another mother who is poor, has four children and facing poverty and related hardships in life. The speaker becomes aware of the gap between her own experience and that of a mother living in the slums. From being a distant onlooker at the misery of poverty, the speaker moves from guilt to pity, and feels a sense of identification with the other mother.The opening lines of the poem correct the prejudice of having judged as
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Sexton clubs the feeling of her separation from her adult daughter along with the cherished maternal dream to see her daughter grow into a ‘happy women,’ contrary to all the kind of speculation associated with the snapping of the mother daughter bond. Sexton envisages her presence in her daughter’s life as, “I am here that somebody else an old tree in the background .” Though any relationship involves deep psychology and emotions, the mother - child relation moves the rough and entire gamut of emotions, but then the society receives and individual who is properly initiated into it, and therefore help create harmony and good relationships.
Another poem that depicts the delight of motherhood is Dharker’s poem ‘Living Space’, where she projects the maternal instinct for protection and survival of the children against all odds. The poem compares and contrasts the sharp line technique of the first stanza to the second stanza of the poem that reflects the precarious condition of “these eggs in a wire basket” the poem opens on the note;
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