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Kamala Das - the Old Playhouse and Other Poems Chapter 4 Kamala Das - The Old Playhouse and Other Poems Kamala Das (b. 1934 - 2009) was educated mainly in Kerala. She was born in Malabar and as she herself said, "speak (s) three languages, write in / Two, dream in one". A bilingual writer, she prefers to write poetry in English and fiction in Malayalam. The literary awards she has won include the Asian Poetry Award (1963) and the Sahitya Akademi Award (1984). Her collections of poems are Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), The Old Playhouse and other poems (1973) and Collected Poems Volume I (1984). My Story, her autobiography, was published in 1975. Kamala Das is essentially known for her bold and frank expression. Her work is both acerbic and tempestuous and she has no qualms about writing boldly, frankly and radically. An acute obsession with love and the use of the confessional mode are the prominent features of her poetry. She has written profusely in Malayalam under the name 'Madhavi Kutty'. Against the frustrating emotional experience, guilt and depression expressed in her autobiography, there is a section of poetry where she writes about an idealized childhood and of a nostalgic yearning for her grandmother's Nalpat House symbolizing freedom, love and protection. Kamala Das - The Old Playhouse and Other / 49 4.0 Objectives 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Background of the poems 4.3 Major themes of the poems 4.4 Summary of the selected poems 4.4.1 Summary of 'The Grandmother's House' 4.4.2 Summary of 'The Old Playhouse' 4.5 Conclusion 4.6 Summary 4.7 Glossary - Answers to check your progress - Field work 4.0 Objectives Friends, in this chapter we are going to study a modern poetess, Kamala Das and her two poems. This chapter will enable you to : ● Explain the background to Kamala Das' poetry. ● Discuss the major themes in her poems. ● Analyse her two poems 'My Grandmother's House' and 'The Old Playhouse'. 4.1 Introduction Friends, in the last chapter we have studied Arun Kolatkar's Jejuri with special reference to some of his selected poems. This chapter will acquaint you to the first modern woman confessional Indian English poetess, Kamala Das. We are going to examine her in the light of the narration of her personal experiences through her poetry. Both the poems under study are different in themes and tone. 'My Grandmother's House' deals with cherished memories and love for her grandmother. On the other hand, 'The Old Playhouse' is about painful experiences of her married life. The loss of freedom in her life is irreplaceable. Kamala Das - The Old Playhouse and Other / 50 4.2 Background of the poems 'My Grandmother's House' is one of the nostalgic poems first published in Summer in Calcutta. It is nostalgic because it portrays the happy, carefree days of the poetess when she was a child (before her marriage). She yearns for the return of those days. In Malabar, she used to live in the aristocratic parental home which was affectionately supervised by her grandmother. The permanent departure of the dear and near ones marks almost all her literary pieces, whose dominant mood is one of melancholy and pathos and nostalgia. 'The Old Playhouse', selected from the book with the same title deals with Das' recurrent theme of failure and frustration in love and marriage. It vividly reveals the plight of a housewife who bewails that her egocentric and male chauvinist husband has virtually reduced her full-blooded and aspiring self to a mere entertaining toy. Consequently, the caged wife, with her stifled and crippled spirit, is helplessly destined to witness the pathetic transformation of her mind into 'an old playhouse with all its lights put out'. The network of evocative and concrete imagery and imaginative symbols transcends an individual's suffering and makes it a generic experience. 4.3 Major themes of the poems Kamala Das is a confessional poet. Most of her poems carry the theme of nostalgia for her past sweet memories and a frustration for her failure in married life. She is eternally in search of true love and affection which unfortunately she was unable to find in her lifetime except her wonderful childhood days. Also in some of her poems like "A Hot Noon in Malabar" she attempts to recapture and sustain her childhood memories. 4.4 Summary of the selected poems 'My Grandmother's House' expresses Kamala Das' brooding for her wonderful childhood days spent at her ancestral home. She is nostalgic for her past memories. On the other hand, 'The Old Playhouse' shows her depressed attitude towards life due to her Kamala Das - The Old Playhouse and Other / 51 dominating husband. She longs to live humanly. 4.4.1 Summary of 'The Grandmother's House' Kamala Das provides us detailed information regarding the genesis of this poem in Chapter 33 of her Autobiography, My Story. She writes: "After the sudden death of my grand - uncle and then that of my dear grandmother the old Nalpat House was locked up and its servants disbanded. The windows were shut, gently as eyes of the dead are shut. My parents took my great grandmother to the house called Sarvodaya where she occupied noiselessly the eastern bedroom on the ground floor, shaded by the tall mango trees through the leaves of which was visible the beloved house. The rats ran across its darkened halls and the white ants raised on its outer walls strange totems of burial." The grandmother has been a source of affection and inspiration to the poetess but her death has rendered her sorrow - stricken and desolate. The house looks totally deserted, now inhabited by snakes and rats. Kamala feels lonely and depressed. During one of her illness - during her nervous breakdown in the noisy city of Bombay - she had taken shelter in Malabar and nursed back to perfect health by her anxious grandmother, but, alas, she is now no more alive. The expression 'blind eyes of windows' and 'the frozen air' reinforce the idea of death and desperation. The grandmother's house is associated with an impenetrable sense of security and protection, which is now missing in her married life. Even the 'darkness' of the grandmother's house was secure for her instead of terror or violence. Kamala Das rather wants that darkness to be lifted bodily and shifted to her new married home flooded with light (but with no security). She expresses this feeling of hers through an evocative image: "Pick an armful of Darkness to bring it here to lie Kamala Das - The Old Playhouse and Other / 52 Behind n\my bedroom door like a brooding Dog …" A 'dog' is a trusted companion keeping an unerring eye on the door to scare away the strangers and the enemies and to safeguard the inmates with all main and might. The last few lines are addressed to the 'darling', i.e. her husband. Kamala Das tells him that: "I lived in such a house and Was proud, and loved …" How nostalgic and pathetic these lines are! The sense of pride and love she once had in the house of her grandmother is now no more her property, since she has become a beggar for love who knocks helplessly at strangers' doors to receive it at least in a small measure. She has lost her way in quest of true love. This situation is in utter contrast to her previous life lived in the soothing company of her grandmother. Kamala Das tells us that she has often remembered her with a sense of nostalgia and beggarliness. That her present life is sans love, sans pride, is emphatically conveyed by her begging for love at 'strangers' doors. There can possibly be no worse pathetic situation for a married woman than this. 4.4.1 Check Your Progress Answer the following in brief : 1. What is Kamala Das' profession? _________________________________________________ 2. Name one more poem by Kamala Das where she fondly cherishes her childhood memories? _________________________________________________ 3. Name the poetess' grandmother's house? _________________________________________________ Kamala Das - The Old Playhouse and Other / 53 4. Which expressions reinforce the idea of desperation? _________________________________________________ 5. Which feeling does the poetess miss in her married life? _________________________________________________ 6. Why has the poetess become a beggar for love? _________________________________________________ 7. How is the present life of the poetess? __________________________________________________ 4.4.2 Summary of 'The Old Playhouse' This poem is a title piece of Kamala Das' third volume of verse, The Old Playhouse and other poems (1973). It is addressed to 'you', to the husband, who wanted to curtail her freedom of movement and action through his subtle maneuverings. The poetess does not like this, just as she does not like him or his ways. His 'monstrous ego' comes under fire herein, since it has totally reduced her and disappointed her. As a result, her mind becomes 'an old playhouse with all lights put out." The poetess needed love and tenderness, security and permanence, from her strong man but he could not satisfy her on these scores. Hence her unredeemed damnation and suffering in his company. The possessive instinct of the man is stressed in the opening of the poem. The man (or better, the poetess' husband) tried to tame a free bird that she was and subject her to sexual torture so that she should forget her happy seasons, old homes and her intrinsic value as a woman. But she had come to him not to learn of him but of herself and thereby 'grow' in a carefree atmosphere. He was pleased with her body's response and its fragile convulsions.
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