• Vandeepa Modi
• Dr. Darsha Jani

Panna Naik is an Indian Gujarati language poet and story writer who has been living in Philadelphia, United States since 1960. She has published eleven volumes of poetry and a volume of short stories. She wrote poetry drawn from her inner world and the world around her. The present paper focuses on the journey of Panna Naik from an alienated bride in foreign land to a poet and various themes she has dealt with. Panna’s poetry presents the feelings of a woman living in the big city and a foreign country focusing on “endurance, individuality, estrangement”. She also captures her relationship with men, the struggles of married life, hopes and confusions in her poems. She got inspiration from the Love Poems (1967) of American poet Anne Sexton. The themes of love, loss, reminiscence, endurance, individuality, estrangement are dealt with in her poetry. Her poems address sorrow, craving for motherhood, the unborn child she yearns to conceive. But there are also poems expressing joy.

Love, loss, reminiscence, endurance, individuality, estrangement, motherhood

"Panna Naik’s Poems- Interior Monologue of Woman’s Heart", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 4, page no.f680-f684, April-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2304984.pdf

"Panna Naik’s Poems- Interior Monologue of Woman’s Heart", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 4, page no. ppf680-f684, April-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2304984.pdf