My Mother at Sixty Six

Kamala Das, a prominent Indian poet born in Kerala, is celebrated for her originality and versatility in capturing human relationships through her poetry and prose. Her poem 'My Mother at Sixty-six' reflects on aging and the emotional pain of witnessing her mother's decline, using vivid imagery to convey complex feelings. The poem's structure, consisting of a single sentence, emphasizes a continuous thread of thought intertwined with observations of the world around her.

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Before you read

thought what our elderlu
Ageing is a natural process; hawe you ever
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
Or a corpse and realised with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away, arnd
looked out at
Trees sprinting, the merry children spillingYoung
out of thelr homes, but after the
airport's
security check, standing a few yards
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 sald was, see you s00n,
Amma,
all Idld was smile and smile and
smile......

sorinting : short fast race, running

gan : colourless

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

Notlce that the whole poem is ina single sentence. punctuated

by commas.
It indícates a single thread of thought interspersed with
observations of the real world around and the way these are
connected to the main 1ea.

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