Summary of Still Another view of the Grace by A.K. Ramanujan
Ramanujan's poems mostly deal with the conflict between modern, liberal, Western Outlooks, and Conservative Indian thoughts and beliefs rooted in age-old customs practices, and prejudices. His poetry projects the psychological dilemma that the progressive liberal Indian mind goes through which finds it hard to disregard and shun the traditions beliefs customs and culture altogether. Still Another View of Grace is a poem from the collection The Striders published in 1966. The subject revolves around the conflict between the speaker's burning physical desires for sex on one hand and his deep-rooted conservatism and cultural prejudices. An outcome of his Brahminical family heritage on the other. The poem opens with a striking boldness as the speaker frankly admits of burn with sexual passion. As he hesitates at the thought of consummating his love. His carnal desires from within ask him to throw away man's morals about obtaining physi...