Poetry as Psycho - Social Analysis: An Exegesis of Eunice de Souza’s Select Poems

The history of Indian English poetry is very vibrant, rich and vast, and the contributions made by women poets attest to their determined efforts to carve a niche of their own in the field of poetry. Indian English poetry written by women came into being as a definitive genre by itself only in the 60s of the last cent ury . The post - independence phase of Indian English poetry by women not only bears the stamp of a woman?s sensitivity and perceptivity of the realities of the commonplace, but also acknowledges the complex nature of the problems confounded by women in the contemporary society. The postmodern era has witnessed the birth of several Indian women poets whose poetry very often becomes a reflection of their experiences and sensibilities. The present article proposes to examine the select poems of Eunice de Souza that are considered to be representative of her role as a woman - poet, and in which Eunice has deftly tracked the emotional and psychic growth and development of feminine consciousness towards acquiring a sense of selfhood in a social order that allows no scope for the exploration of her inner urges and creative potentialities.