TNPSC English Study Material- My Grandmother's House

TNPSC English Study Material- Poems

My Grandmother’s House –by Kamala Das.

A grandma is always special. What does your grandma mean, In your life?

In the poem 'My Grandmother's House', Karnala Surayya writes about her childhood in Kerala. She contrasts her present life in which she begs for love "at least In small change" [not wholly or completely] 'at strangers doors' [from people she doesn't know well] with her childhood in her grandmother's house, where she experienced lave in abundance, without ever having to ask for it. Her language is lively and imaginative.

There is a house now far away where once

I received love... That woman died,

The house withdrew Into silence, snakes 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 windows or

Just listen to the frozen air,

Orin wi Id despair, pick an armful of

DilliMILS8 to bring khan) to lie

Behind my bed room door like a brooding

Dog... you cannot believe, darling,

Can you, that I lived in such a house and

Was proud, and loved— !who have lost

My way and beg now at strangees doors to

Receive love, at least In small change.

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NOTE: The Above poem was unedited and has been taken from Tamil Text book for easy reference for the people preparing for the TNPSC Exams.