write the critical appreciation of the poem: my grandmothers house
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My grandmother's house by Kamala das shows the nostalgic feelings and love and affection between the poet and her grandmother. Here the poet recalls the memories that she spends with her when she was child. and gradually she bestows her kindness and love the poet when she touches the every stages of life.
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Explanation:
“There is a house now far away where once
I received love…… that woman died.”
She was reminded of her grandmother’s house where she spent her memorable
childhood. It was the only place where she could receive love from her grandmother. She
became emotional and suffered intense agony. After the death of her grandmother, the poet says
that even the House was filled with grief, and she accepted the seclusion with resignation. Only
dead silence haunted the House, feeling of desolation wandering throughout. Kamala Das was
too young to read the books at that time. The books in the house seemed to her as horrible as
snakes and her blood turned cold like the moon.
“The house withdrew into silence, snakes moved
Among books, I was then too young
To read, and my blood turned cold like the moon”
Since then the poetess was thinking of going to her grandmother’s house again. She had a
strong desire to be in there and wanted to look through the windows of the house. She called the
windows blind because there was no one in the house to look through the windows. She wanted
to sit there alone and listened to the blowing of the cold winter wind. Her heart was itself like a
dark window where the fresh air did not blow.
There, to peer through blind eyes of windows or
Just listen to the frozen air.”
Kamala Das told her darling that it would be difficult for him to believe that she had lived
in such a wonderful house. She loved it so much that she was proud of it. Now the love shown by
her grandmother was not there for her. So she had been requesting even the strangers to show at
least some of their love on her. But her wish remained unfulfilled. The failure of love and the
birth of poetry were related to each other in Kamala Das. Her intimacy with her husband was
purely physical. Under such circumstances love degraded into lust and savage condition. So she
had been begging strangers to show true love to her like her grandmother who shared her love
and affection for Kamala Das.
“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?”
Kamala Das sums up the poem saying that it is, to some extent, difficult for anyone to
believe that she once lived in such a house filled with love and affection and was so loved by all
and she lived her life with full pride. It is also to hard believe for every one that her world once
filled with happiness is a sharp contrast to her present situation where she is completely devoid
of love and pride. She says that in her desperate quest for love, she has lost her way. Since she
didn’t receive any feelings of love from the people whom she called her own, she now has to
knock “at strangers' doors” and beg them for love, if not in substantial amounts, then at least in
small measure.
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