2. NAME OF THE POET: KAMLA DAS
NAME OF THE POEM: MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE
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3. BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET
Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly
known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala
Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from
Kerala, India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories
and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name
Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography. She was
also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's
issues, child care, politics, etc. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at
Jehangir Hospital in Pune.
4. MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE
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, Or in wild despair, pick an armful of Darkness to bring
it here to lie Behind my bedroom door like a brooding Dog…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?
5. SUMMARY OF THE POEM
My Grandmother's House," is an autobiographical poem by
Indian writer Kamala Das, tells a story of nostalgia and sorrow.
The poem's speaker longs to return to her grandmother's house,
where she once felt loved and secure especially now that she
lives a lonely adult life, mourning the safety and comfort
of her childhood.
6. FIGURE OF SPEECH USED IN POEM
Simile: “brooding dog” is used to show her
inability to pay a visit to her grandmother's
house
7. NAME OF THE POET: Rabindranath Tagore
NAME OF THE POEM: On the nature of love
8. BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET
Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now
Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta), Bengali poet,
short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter
who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of
colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from
traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly
influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa,
and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of
early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-
European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
9. On the nature of love
The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways.
We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where
or with whom - of that we are unaware.
But we have this faith - that a lifetime's bliss
will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips Scents, touches,
sounds, snatches of songs
brush us, pass us, give us delightful shocks.
Then peradventure there's a flash of lightning:
whomever I see that instant I fall in love with.
I call that person and cry: `This life is blest!
for your sake such miles have I traversed!’
All those others who came close and moved off
in the darkness - I don't know if they exist or not
10. the poem “on the nature of love” says that life is mysterious
and that the quest for a soulmate seems to be never-ending.
The millions of people, living on the face of the earth,
search for their soulmates in a million different ways. There
is interaction between the various travelers along their
journey of life.
SUMMARY OF THE POEM
11. FIGURE OF SPEECH USED IN POEM
REPETITION: “A million people thread it in a
million ways.” Where the word “million is repeated
twice.
