My Grandmother's House by Kamala Das

MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE INTRODUCTION The poem,   My Grandmother’s House , first appeared in Kamala Das’s first anthology of verse titled Summer Time in Calcutta (1905). It is also an autobiographical poem in which the poet’s longing for her parental house in Malabar is movingly described. She is reminded of the ancestral house where she had received immense love and affection from her grandmother. ABOUT THE POEM My Grandmother’s House is a nostalgic poem written by   Kamala Das   (Kamala Surayya). Though it’s a short poem its meaning is vast and wide. The undercurrent of the poem is Kamala Das’s childhood life with her grandmother where she felt more love and peace than she enjoys in her present life The poet’s feminine sensibility finds its clearest loveless relationships in it. A note of pessimism runs throughout the action of the poem. It reveals the poet’s painful unfulfilled desire to visit her grandmother’s house to which she is deeply and emotionally at...