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A Critical Appreciation of the Poem My Grandmother’s House by
Kamala Das

Dr. P Sreenivasulu Reddy
Dr. Ramanadham Ramesh Babu


Kamala Das, the most prominent feminist voice in the postcolonial era, has created a permanent place for herself in Indian Writing in English. The poem My Grand Mother’s House is a lyric that reveals her nostalgic yearning for her family home in Malabar where she had spent some of the happiest days of her life with her grandmother. The poem first appeared in Kamala Das’s first anthology of verses titled Summer Time in Calcutta.

Kamala Das then lived in a city, far away from her grandmother’s place. Here she suffered from an acute sense of alienation after having left grandmother’s place after her marriage. She remembered the days she spent in her grandmother’s house and the love and affection showed by her. The memory makes her sad and she says …
“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.

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Dr. P Sreenivasulu Reddy
Asst. Professor – Dept. of English
GITAM University
Visakhapatnam – 530041
Andhra Pradesh
India
sreenupydala@gmail.com


Dr. Ramanadham Ramesh Babu
Asst. Professor – Dept. of English
GITAM University
Visakhapatnam – 530041
Andhra Pradesh
India
ramanadham_rameshbabu@yahoo.com

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