![]() ![]() Both strategies invoke Western and Indian philosophical conceptions of reality, working to build a vision of freedom, autonomy and joy in the relation between the individual and the universe. In Love S Rite Ruth Vanita Asks This Challenging Question In Order To Emphasize That Mutual Consent And Family And Community Recognition Validate A Marriage-And This Support Frequently. The poem conflates the words “soul” and “self” it also both genders and ungenders these words. Contesting the dominant feminist reading of “A Prayer for my Daughter” as conservative and patriarchal, I suggest that the prayer is as much for the speaker as for the daughter. Performing a close reading of stanzas 6-9, in conjunction with the Yeats-Swami translation of the Upanishads, I focus on the tropes of the tree and the bird, which I trace both in Indian and in Western literature. I argue that reading “self” in the poem to refer only to the individual ego, and ignoring other philosophical resonances of the term, has resulted in misreading the poem as narrowly personal and politically conservative. more In this paper I read “A Prayer for My Daughter” as a reverie on the nature of the self – the individual self, but also, more importantly, the Self in the sense of universal spirit, as Yeats used the term in his translation (with Purohit Swami) of the ancient Indian philosophical texts, the Upanishads. ![]() In this paper I read “A Prayer for My Daughter” as a reverie on the nature of the self – the indi. Vanita examines the twin phenomena of same-sex weddings and same-sex joint suicides (mostly female) that have been reported from many parts of India. ![]()
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