Volume III Special Issue IV April 2023

Name of Author : A Abinaya, Indhu V

Title of the paper : Subaltern Themes in Selected Poems

Abstract: The paper discusses about the Subaltern themes of selected poems Still I Rise, Birds in Prison and In our Colony. The first poem Still I rise was written by Maya Angelou discusses about the theme the power and the beauty of the Blackness in which Angelou conveys this theme through rhetorical questions that demonstrate that the reasons people cite for hating Black people are trivial. The second poem Birds in Prison was written by J.V Pawar in which he brought up the theme of racial oppression of the poem opens up his heart that is filled with anger and frustration against the age-old system of oppression and conventional beliefs of caste system. The last poem Ind our Colony was written by Keshav Meshram who brought the theme of the Blackness overcome the nature of resilience. These talks about the Blacks who are been oppressed very much but still they have the capacity to get educated and get well settled in the society.

Keywords : Subaltern Themes, Birds in Prison, Blackness

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Page Number : 15-17