Ms. Ela Singh 1 MULIEBRITY Sujata Bhatt Poet: Sujata Bhatt Sujata Bhatt (b. 1956) grew up in Pune but emigrated with her family to the United States in 1968. She studied in the States receiving an MFA from the University of Iowa and went on to be writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada. More recently she was visiting fellow at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Bremen, Germany. Her first collection, Brunizem, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Subsequent collections have been awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and in 1991 she received a Cholmondeley Award. The title: The word „muliebrity‟ means womanhood, the status of b eing a woman and po ssessing full, womanly powers. Situation: In this poem, the poet describes the actions of the girl picking up cow dung in front of this temple. The poet also describes all the senses such as smells and sounds surrounding the poet. There are only two people-the poet and the girl. Throughout the poem, the poet is only describing the girl and her actions. The poem is in the perspective of the poet and this is effective because as this perspective shows the reader what the poet herself is feeling. The speaker:
