Sustainability and New World Order- A Study With Reference to Kamala Das and A.D.Hope

Abstract : The paper tries to emulate sustainability through two poems – Kamala Das' My grandmother's house and A.D.Hope's The Death of the bird. In My Grandmother's House the narrator is dislocated from her maternal home in Kerala to her in laws place in Bombay, whereas the bird in the ' The Death of the Bird' is feeling uprooted in the alienated soil Australia. The poems though belonging to different nations puts forth the idea that when there is liberation from economic impoverishment, there will be environmental and social reconstruction. The sustainability which is attained through perseverance should be bequeathed to the future generation by creating a new social structure considering environment as a primary factor. The two poems written during the late 1950's depict the transformation of the world into a novel phenomenon which wasn't witnessed in the last 2000 years. The social structure which chained man in the name of convention, geographical boundaries, customs and beliefs passed on to them from the old world started to attenuate, paving way for independence of man as an individual rather a socially manacled entity.