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
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.
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