Heightened Character of Sensuality and Sexual Images in the Poetry of Shiv K. Kumar
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Sensuality and Sexual Images, Shiv K. KumarAbstract
Shiv K. Kumar is a notable poetic genius. He is famous for his thoughtful and scholarly poetry. Recurrence of sexual images in his poetry sometimes beguiles his readers who initially begin to understand him a poet of cheap sentimentality. But a larger view of his poetry helps us open the layers of the sound meaning of life hidden behind them. Shiv K. Kumar was impressed by D.H. Lawrence’s theory of the religion of blood and Bergson’s theory of instinctive memory as the best source to know the Truth. In this research article attempt has been made to understand the real motive of Shiv K. Kumar behind the recurrence of sexual images and portrayal of sexual urges in his poetry. Kumar considers sexual urges of a living being as the beginning of a grand life. Perfect realization of the life of blood opens the floodgates of the dazzling light of intuitive vision. Humanity is at a loss in disallowing the properties of sexual life to come in open expression. The game of hide and seek in the society of the so called moralists, religious thinkers and law framers has always harmed the people. Shiv K. Kumar’s attempts to know the truth of life in the blooms of blood consciousness are valuable notions in his poetry.
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