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Kamala Das' poetry is a record of her own experiences and observations, her own unfulfilled love and her own sexual exploitation, disillusionment and frustration that she had to suffer in a male dominated society. Kamala Das has written many poems which narrates her preoccupation with death and illness. Mrs. Das's story has also been a story of recurrent attacks of diseases and illness. When any poet grows old with the passage of time of suffers pangs, distress and illness in his life he explains their experiences in his work. Kamala Day is a singer of feminine sensibility suffered a lot with physically and mentally in her life. She presents pathetic picture of death and illness. The theme of death and illness is described in her poem like, "suicide", "my morning Tree", "The sunshine cat",“The Invitation” and “Gino”. Kamala Das has been a suffered throughout her life her poetry is replete with the images of disease destruction, death, loneliness, helplessness, frustration and rejection, we invites death to bring to an end the non-stop sufferings and frustrations in life. The aim of present paper is to bring forth this aspect of Kamala Das' poetry and examine various poems related to death and illness. The romantic poets like Keats and shelly narrated their sufferings their poetry.

Illness, Death, Suffer, Frustration, Pathetic