Abstract:
Poetry is the most popular literary genre. It is admired loved by women as poetry is a way of expressing women’s feeling which is from their tender hearts. From ancient period, Tamil literature has the highest number of women poets in the world. It is amazing to see they were able to compose poems and attend assemblies. They express their feelings in various ways. We have what is called women’s poetry in our times. Women engage in this creation of poetry based on feminism for two decades.
There are many views about feminism in the short stories, novels and any other literary works. Although comparatively, feminism is revealed in the poetry in most level.
Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal and social rights for women.