The poem My Grandmother’s House was written by Kamala Das was an Indian poet in English as well as author in Malayalam from Kerala. She was famous for her many Malayalam short stories as well as many poems written in English. This poem My Grand mother’s house first appeared in Kamala Das’s first anthology of verse with the title of “Summer Time in Calcutta”. It is also an autobiographical poem because the poet says her love on her grandmother. It takes back the poet to her childhood, where she lived securely and happily with her grandmother in her house.
“there is a house now far away where once I received love……”
In the above lines the poet combines the present and past that the house in a present form and the love she received in a past form. Her grandmother’s house was the place where she was loved immensely by her grandmother. She was broken that her grandmother’s house was damaged.
“That women died,
The house withdrew into silence…….”
In the above lines the poet feels that when her grandmother died, the beauty of the house was all ruined. The house became silence and snakes where roaming all around the house. She was emotionally imbalanced on the death of her grandmother.
“How often I think of going……..
………
Dog……”
In the above lines the poet says that she often visits her grandmother’s house to remember the happiest moment with her grandmother. The poet says her relationship with her grandmother with the example of dog that how a dog is loved by it’s owner and also the dog roam with his owner an always stays with it’s owner.
“Can you…..
………
Receive love at least in small change”
In the above lines she says that how she was loved by her grandmother in the house and how she was proud to live in such a house with love and affection. She says that now the poet is begging for the had in her life through her grandmother.
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