‘My Grandmother’s House’ is a wonderful poem written by Kamala Das. In this poem, the poetess describes a particular house, where she spent sweet days of her childhood.
The poetess says that she lived with her grandmother in the same house during her childhood. The house belonged to her grandmother. She got love from her grandmother in that house. Everything was very good round the house. But, when her grandmother died and the speaker began to live in other place, the condition of the house became very bad. Everywhere round that house became pitiable. Bushes grew around it and snakes were moving there. The house became silent. The speaker went there to see the house. When she reached there, she got earlier love. She saw the house damaged. Everything was changed. But, still she feels pride, because she got love very much in this house. The poetess says that his grandmother’s death shocked her and she felt as if her blood became cold as the moon.
Thus, in this poem the poetess wants to tell that how she lived with her grandmother in the house, where she was too young.