Desire of Language: Selected Poems

If you want to see the smiling face of Punjabi poetry, then you should read the poems of Vanita. Her poetry deals with the human sensitivity, culture, traditions, feminine, plurality and with the global consciousness. In her poetic language she writes about patriarchal dimensions and its hegemony in a very satirical way. Her poems are related with the socio as well as ideological polarization and about the contemporary situations of war which have terrified the mind of the world. Her woman is neither helpless nor sorrowful, whereas before her the earlier woman poetry was depressing. She is unparalleled among the wonderful advocates of confidence in feminism. It's rare example is her poem Shakuntla where she has presented such a dare through the mythical character of Shakuntla. Her feminist insistence plays in her poetry in the spacious courtyard.. The way their linguistic establishments are depicted in the poem Desire of Language is very significant and important. Thus her poetic act becomes a semiotics act in which poetess does not believe in one dimension of Truth. Vanita writes about the parallel truths. Instead of dictatorial, undemocratic and purely traditional and cultural conditions her poetry gives you pluralistic approach. In her poetry fresh images, metaphors, language and grammar plays in a distinctive manner, which gives you a new thought and fresh feel of transformation also.