A Doubt

 Today I am going to use this page to type my questions for which I haven't got the clear understanding yet. May be later if I find out I will surely share it. And my doubts may seem silly, not a valid one, unlogic, very subjective notion etc. but it came to me. So I thought I would use this blog as a noting down of the thoughts. 'An introduction' by Kamala das about whom I have already mentioned once in my blog and her idea of language to write. In this blog I am going to arrange my doubts on this same poem's second half part. 

First, there is a line where kamala das mentions about how men seek women and women who go for love. She puts it in this way "he is every man who wants a woman , just as I am every woman who seeks love". And as the poet's point, she says that men will only need a women but it's only a women who can understand the concept of love. At least that's what I understood by reading it. My doubt here is that if women are the true seekers of love then it seems that men are submissive to women because they seek women and follow them because only women will know the value of love. So it is fine if a man seeks women for true love right? Why is this line read only from the perspective of men seeking women only for lustful love? And that's where my doubt increases on how we interpret a poem and which lines to be taken in which perspective? Have the poets listed any rules? 

In that case if the poem has to be read only in the latter perspective, then kamala das in her poem says that there is nothing called true love, does it mean that women only search for abstract ideas and blindly men will follow them who ultimately also seek abstract ideas. Therefore there is no target for life and human nature only focuses on these ideas. 

I don't know whether my thought process is correct or is it understandable but still I thought I will write about it because only when we ask our doubts we can get a clear understanding right. Our doubts should never be hindrance to our success. Franklin D. Roosevelt said that 'only limit to our realisation tomorrow is our doubts of today'. I got to see this quote today. He meant about self doubt but I also understand it in the perspective of doubts which should not be hesitated to be posed for clear understanding. Then our knowledge becomes authentic right.