MIDDLE AGE
_Kamala Das
Middle age which speaks of the dismal stage of a mother whose love is rejected by her son is written by Kamala Das, now known Kamala Surayya.
When children especially boys grow and ‘emerge in harsh glory’ they hardly need the company of their mother. They share thoughts with friends and the poet compares the adolescent stage to pupae, with it startlingly beautiful image, bursting. Through this the poet could clearly express the harsh realities of adolescence. But the sensitive woman couldn’t ear the neglect. To her, motherhood is a part of her feminine itself that yearns for love and its fulfillment. The mother worries that her role in his life has been restricted to ironing sons clothes making him food etc.
