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- CAN A WOMAN BE A GOOD WRITER? - October 25, 2020
It is a reversal poem that can be read from beginning to end and vice versa presenting contrasting proposition to each other. The poem intends to express the legitimacy of women in the arena of art and literature with an affirmation. Since time immemorial, women are considered unfit for art and writing under the sheer domination of patriarchal culture. The poem emphasizes a feminist strain highlighting approbation for women’s stance in writing.
CAN A WOMAN BE A GOOD WRITER?
I am not a good writer
Because I am a woman
Please teach me not the ways
‘I can become a good writer’
As at the time of death in life
I will curse my birth and writing
Nor think, I am going to make castles in air
With the belief of the presence of an artist
So, all that while I hum a song
That I am not a good writer
Even if you persuade me to believe in this man made societal
To rely that a woman can be a good writer
Only one thing echoes
I am not good enough to be admired
And I never intend to realize that
A good writer is imprisoned within me
As when I think about my imagination
I always force my conscience to muse
Can I (a woman) ever be a good writer?
(Now read from Down to Up…..)
It’s so beautiful. The way of expressing contrast emotions in a reverse form is really appreciable, wonderful poetic piece.
Thanks for the appreciation Prerna Anmol
So beautiful you wrote sir… Marvelous..😇
Thanks Ms Jyoti. I am honoured you read it.
How many can be sure of the criteria of being a good writer? Not even the ones writing for their livelihood can be. The poem emphasise the grid the art and woman together can be etched into.
Thank you Archi. I am really grateful you spared the time to read and evaluate it.
Very well written. I realize how women were subdued and kept aloof from àrt and literature by càlling unfit for creative ànd imaginative works.
Thank you Anjali. Thank you for reading and appreciation
As reviewed by an Associate Professor Your poem titled “Can A Woman Be A Good Writer?” is a poem that clearly states that a woman can be a good writer as well as not in that mould at the same time.These simultaneous statements of oxymoron nature do make the poem so beautiful and regenerating at the same time.The outlandish statement is initiated at outset itself of the poem towards the direction that the woman concerned in the poem can’t be a good writer.Since,the individual is a woman,being a good writer becomes a tough act to follow.The woman implores that she… Read more »
Dear sir,
It is really an honour that you reviewed the poem to such deeper extent. Thanks
Beautiful thought…
Thank you Munmun Rudra.
A Masterpiece! Very Unlike the Common Poems of Monotonous Poetic Themes Honestly speaking, I read the poem three times and recited it two times to my Literature teacher (who is a very friendly woman). I would like to cite the poem in my research paper if the writer allows me to do so. The poem takes a critical reader to those historical days where a female character in real life was not allowed to act on stage. Really a very great poem. Looking forward to read more literary and critical pieces of literature from the same writer. The reason I… Read more »
Thank you dear
Really awesome. A woman can also be a writer and an artist and every popular entity. I did not know there is also a poem in literature called Reversal poem. I knew already about Palindrome in which we read same word from front and back. I also knew about anagram to make another word from the same letters but it was marvelous. The theme of the poem is so deep and makes the reader to see the poem through the lens of feminist approach. Reading from up to down makes a negative meaning and reading from down to up makes… Read more »
Thanks
What were you preoccupied with when you were writing it?
Much more things🙂
Thank you.
Awesome poem
Thanks sir
Even though literary world was brazenly manipulated by male writers but now the things are changing a little, literary skill does not depends on gender but women have one too many diversions specially if they are living a family life!
Thanks Ma’am
Wonderful expressions
Interesting poem. I loved reading it from down to up.
Very nicely written sir 🙌🙌