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This presentation is based on Cleanth Brooks's essay "The Language of Paradox,", wherein Cleanth Brooks emphasizes how the language of poetry is different from that of the sciences, claiming that he is interested in our seeing that the paradoxes spring from the very nature of the poet's language: “it is a language in which the connotations play as great a part as the denotations. And I do not mean that the connotations are important as supplying some sort of frill or trimming, something external to the real matter in hand. I mean that the poet does not use a notation at all--as a scientist may properly be said to do so. The poet, within limits, has to make up his language as he goes.”
This article is mainly focused on the protagonist Savitri of the novel The Dark Room and how she is alienated from herself, from the society and from the world and about her quest for marital identity. Savitri also goes through the crisis of discontent to the quest for happiness. Savitri of the ancient legend is a paragon of virtue and courage who confronts even Death to save her husband is finally victorious. Ironically unlike the legendary Savitri, Narayan’s Savitri chooses to leave home, husband and children once she comes to know of her husband’s infidelity. Contrary to the legend, Savitri is just an ordinary, amiable, housewife. She abandons her gambler and drunkard husband and her family. But her independence proves detrimental to Savitri’s familial peace. Narayan skillfully portrays her every action and in his ironic subtle fashion puts across the artificiality behind it. As a qualitative research, this researcher has taken the text as a ptimary source and interpreted it from existential point of view.
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FOR VIII TH STANDARD
The poem is about the happiness that rain brings to the poet. It describes how rain soothes the speaker. It tells us how first showers promptly erased the weary lines created by day long fatigue from the poet's face.From the poem we can identify that poet has been leading a busy and bored life, the first showers soaked her and helped her to free her mind. Along with the poet the readers refresh their minds while reading the poem.
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The poem is a reminiscence of the poetess’ grandmother and their ancestral home at Malabar in Kerala. Her memory of love she received from her grandmother is associated with the image of her ancestral home, where she had passed some of the happiest days of her life, and where her old grandmother had showered her love and affection. With the death of her grandmother the house withdrew into silence. When her grandmother died, even the house seemed to share her grief, which is poignantly expressed in the phrase “the House withdrew”. The house soon became desolate and snakes crawled among books. Her blood became cold like the moon because there was none to love her the way she wanted.
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5. General Themes in Her Poems-
• Hunger for love
• Sex
• Frustrated married life
• Extra-marital affairs
• Loneliness
• Nostalgia/love for past memories
6.
7.
8. Introduction
• The poem My Grandmother’s House is written by
Kamala Das.
• The poem has been written in the memory of her
grandmother with whom she had spent her
childhood.
• The poet considers those moments to be the best
moments of her life and desires to get them. She also
mourns their loss. Like her poem An Introduction,
this poem also falls into the category of confessional
poetry.
9. • The poem, My Grandmother’s House, first
appeared in Kamala Das’ first anthology of
verse titled Summer Time in Calcutta (1965).
• 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.
10. Theme
• 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 attached.
• The poet is shocked to learn that the house is all in ruin after the
death of her grandmother.
• She suffers in silence due to the wear and tear it has undergone in
her absence. A death-like silence reigns in her grandmother’s house.
11. The poem My Grandmother’s House has
only 16 lines, very short poem.
The opening line tells the readers about
her grandmother’s house, where she lived
when she was very young. We can read line
by line explanation My Grandmother’s
House.
12. 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?
Kamala Das
13. “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”
The poem, My Grandmother’s House, which can be read in full here, shows Kamala Das’s intense
love and attachment to it. She suffers from an acute sense of alienation after having left this
place after her marriage.
Poem Analysis-
• The poet now lives in a big city after her marriage, a remote place from her grandmother’s
house.
• She is reminded of her grandmother’s house where she spent her memorable childhood.
• Ironically, it is the only place where she received love from her grandmother. The death of
the grandmother is even mourned by the house to which she was emotionally attached.
• A death-like silence reigned in the house after her exit from this world. It seems that the
grandmother was the very soul of this house. Being deserted, the snakes cold be seen
among books in the library of the house.
• At that point of time she was too young to read those books which looked quite horrible
and repulsive like snakes. She was almost frozen with fear at the passing away of her
grandmother and seemed cold like the moon.
14. • The very opening lines of the poem capture alive the poet’s
mood of nostalgia.
• She is reminded of the happiest days of her childhood which
she spent in the company of her grandmother.
• She was deeply attached to her grandmother who was very
caring and affectionate to her. She was emotionally
destabilized after the death of her grandmother and felt almost
heart-broken.
• The intensity of her grief is suggestively conveyed by the
ellipse in the form of a few dots in this section of the poem. It
was her disenchantment with her loveless marriage which
reminded her of her grandmother’s pure and selfless love.
15. “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…”
• In the above lines of the poem, My Grandmother’s House, the
poet defines her relationship with her grandmother in a very
moving manner.
• Kamala Das is reminded of the happiest days of her childhood
which spent with her grandmother.
• The poet was deeply attached to her grandmother who was very
caring and affectionate to her. She was emotionally shattered after
the death of her grandmother who had been the chief source of
inspiration in her life.
16. • The poet often longs to visit her grandmother’s house to which
she was emotionally attached since her childhood.
• It has been a place of security and protection which is sadly
missing in her new house in the city.
• She would like to peep through the dust-ridden or coloured
panes of windows which were shut after the death of the
grandmother.
• She would like to listen and feel the still atmosphere prevailing
in the house.
• It is this longing to revisit her grandmother’s house that adds
to her sense of frustration and hopelessness.
• The darkness of her grandmother’s house can have no
terrifying impact on her. She would like to gather some
darkness, some memories of the grandmother’s house and
bring them to her present city residence.
• The very memories of her grandmother’s house will have a
soothing impact on her loveless and hopeless married life.
17. • The poet is in a mood of reminiscence and
recreates the plight of the grandmother’s
house after her departure from the scene of
life.
• She gives us the very feel of the house in its
state of neglect and desertion.
• The poet has used the simile of a brooding
dog to show her inability to pay a visit to her
grandmother’s house.
• She has employed suggestive visual imagery
of ‘blind eyes of the windows’ and ‘the frozen
air to convey the idea of death and
desperation.
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20.
21.
22. …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?
• In these lines of the poem, the poet says how her frustration and disenchantment
in the marital life forced her to go in for extra-marital relationship. The poet
often longs to visit her grandmother’s house to which she was emotionally attached
since her childhood.
• Unlike her miserable city life with her husband, it had been a place of security and
genuine love for her.
• Here the poet informs her dear husband that he can never believe the intensity of
love that she received from her grandmother. He can never realize that she was
extremely proud of her grandmother’s house where she was deeply loved by her
grandmother.
• It is her separation from her grandmother’s house after marriage that has
ruined her life for ever. It is loveless and hopeless married life that has crippled
her sense of pride and love which she used to have in her grandmother’s house.
She has become a beggar for love who knocks helplessly at strangers’ doors to
receive at least in a small measure. She has almost lost her way in search of
genuine and selfless love.
23. To Conclude…
• Kamala Das exposes the futility of loveless and hopeless
marital relationships in these five concluding lines of the
poem.
• It shows the agony and humiliation of a married woman
who is forced to seek extra-marital relationships to seek love
for her emotional satisfaction.
• It is the mood of nostalgia that dominates the closing phase
of the poem. The poet is reminded of her grandmother’s
house where received love and safety in her childhood.
• She has lost all her identity and freedom in her loveless
relationship.