Kamala Das has cultivated an extraordinary poetic style which is conversational, colloquial, fluent and graceful and which fits in the confessional nature of her poetry. She does not compose poems of love or nature. She writes only about herself. So, she imparts a personal touch to words.

She moulded her fiction in poetic lyricism and cast her poetry in stark, unadorned prose, the modalities of one crossing over to the other – all of which render her writing more ‘interlingual’ than bilingual, as K. Satchidananan stated at a recent ‘Symposium on Kamala Das and the tradition of bilingual creativity’ conducted by Sahitya Akademi and University of Kerala at the Institute of English, Thiruvananthapuram.

Style of Kamala Das: Confessional Poetry: Kamala Das is frequently linked to confessional poetry, a literary genre in which the poet shares their feelings and experiences in a close-knit manner. Her poems provide readers a very intimate and reflective journey by acting as a canvas for her deepest desires, thoughts, and struggles.