Question

While the poet respected her grandmother’s sentiments of royal grandeur, we can also see that she revolts against it. Identify the lines which bring this out.

Answer 1

Kamala Das is a woman full of respect, cultural values, beliefs, love & peace. Her grandmother taught her to love, forgive and devote her own life to the service of others & think very less of her own. She could empathize with the struggles of every woman, and it can be easily seen in her work. Poet could feel the presence of her grandmother, so she promises herself to save the royal inherited Heritage 300-year-old house for her grandmother. But in reality, she realizes that it is not possible because the old house was breaking down, white ants were climbing, and rats were running fearlessly here & there. Then she asks for forgiveness as she was not capable of renovating the house. She felt guilty for not completing her promise to her grandmother and flung it into death's pyre. But still, she is proud of her old royal blood even though she is not powerful enough to protect or restore the old house that her great grandmother loved. His great-grandmother liked it. The line "I have left again... Arabian Seaport". Although she respected her grandmother and promised her to go to another city, she still showed this.