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      


    

    2021-22
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    About the poet

    Kamala Das (1934-2009) was born in Malabar, Kerala.


    She is recognised as one of India’s foremost poets. Her
    works are known for their originality, versatility and
    the indigenous flavour of the soil. Kamala Das has
    published many novels and short stories in English and
    Malayalam under the name ‘Madhavikutty’. Some of
    her works in English include the novel Alphabet of Lust
    (1977), a collection of short stories Padmavati the Harlot
    and Other Stories (1992), in addition to five books of
    poetry. She is a sensitive writer who captures the
    complex subtleties of human relationships in lyrical
    idiom, My Mother at Sixty-six is an example.

    Before you read


    Ageing is a natural process; have you ever thought what our elderly
    parents expect from us?

    Driving from my parent’s


    home to Cochin last Friday
    morning, I saw my mother,
    beside me,
    doze, open mouthed, her face
    ashen like that
    of a corpse and realised with
    pain
    that she was as old as she
    looked but soon
    put that thought away, and
    looked out at Young
    Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
    out of their homes, but after the airport’s
    security check, standing a few yards
    90/Flamingo

    2021-22
    away, I looked again at her, wan,
    pale
    as a late winter’s moon and felt that
    old
    familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,
    but all I said was, see you soon,
    Amma,
    all I did was smile and smile and
    smile......

    sprinting : short fast race, running


    wan : colourless

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    1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
    2. Why are the young trees described as ‘sprinting’?
    3. Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children
    ‘spilling out of their homes’?
    4. Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
    5. What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?

    Notice that the whole poem is in a single sentence, punctuated


    by commas.
    It indicates a single thread of thought interspersed with
    observations of the real world around and the way these are
    connected to the main idea.

    My Mother at Sixty-six/91

    2021-22

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