My grandmother's House poem summary || My Grandmother's House Poem by Kamala Das.

MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE:|| (INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH) ||BY-KAMALA DASA

1.     My grandmother’s House poem

2.     Introduction to My grandmother’s     House

3.     About the author of My grandmother’s House

4.     Summary of My grandmother’s House

MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE

There is a house now far away where once I received love

That woman died,

The house withdrew into silence,

Snaked moved

Among books, I was then too young

To read, and my blood turned cold

like the moon

How often I think of going

There, to peer through blind eyes

of window or

just listen to the frozen air,

Or in wild despair, pick an armful of

Darkness to bring it here to lie

Behind my bedroom like a brooding

Dog….you cannot believe, darling,

Can you, that I lived in such a house and

Was proud, and loved…..I who have lost

My way and beg now at strangers’ doors

to

Receive love, at least in small change?

                          *…….*

INTRODUCTION TO MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE:

My Grandmother’s House is a poem written by a very famous Indian author Kamala Das. The poem (My Grandmother’s House) is written by Kamala in the memory of her grandmother. She tells about how she spent her childhood with her grandmother. Kamala Das considered those memories to be the best in her life and she desires to get them. She also grieves about her loss.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE: 

Kamala Das also known as Kamala Suraiyya was an Indian author and leading Malayalam author. She was born on 31 March, 1934 in Kerala. She was born in India when there was British. She grew up in Calcutta. She always stood up and speak against domestic violence, marital problems, sexual oppression and about prostitute in more than 20 books. Her famous works are Padmavati the Harlot, My story, A Doll for Child Prostitute. She was rewarded with many awards like Vayalar Award, Varkey Award, Kerela Sahitya Akademi Award for Story, Muttathu Varkey Award and more. She died on 31 May, 2009 in Pune, Maharashtra.

SUMMARY OF THE POEM (MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE):

In the beginning lines of the poem My Grandmother’s House, she says that there is a house which is now very far away from her where she received love. The house which is she talking about is of her grandmother in which she spent the days of the childhood. However, her grandmother is no more with her. The house “withdraw in silence” this term means without any life as her grandmother was the only soul of the house. Her grandmother also had books which kamala could not read as she was quite young and her grandmother would read stories for her. But now snakes had found home in those books. All these things had made that house more horrible and the poet “like the moon” (quite unhappy or sad). She is now without any life and temperateness.

The poet in the next line is expressing her desire to go to her grandmother’s house. She is so much emotionally attached to it since her childhood. She wants to look through the “blind eyes of windows” of her grandmother’s house. Here “blind eyes of windows” means that there is no one in the house to look for. She also desires to listen to “the frozen air” which means that fresh air has not moved in the house as the house is locked. The poet further says that she wants to bring the darkness of her Grandmother’s house with her “in wild despair” i.e. in her bothered life.

In the final lines of the poem she is in conversation with her readers. She says that no one will believe that she had some of the best memories of her grandmother’s house. And now she has lost her grandmother. She begs at the door of strangers for love and care. She knows well that no one will able to give that much love and care as her but she hope for at least some part of it. The poets end the poem My Grandmother’s House with memories, hope and desire.