Summary of the poem' ghanshyam' by kamala das?

Answer 1

An Introduction, a poem included in Kamala Das's first volume of poetry, Summer in Calcutta(1965), begins with a statement that shows her frank distaste for politics, especially in politically free India ruled by a chosen elite. The poet asserts her right to speak three languages, and defends her choice to write in two--her mother-tongue, Malayalam, and English. She doesn't like to be advised in this matter by any guardian or relations. Her choice is her own: authentic and born of passion. The poet looks upon her decision to write in English as natural and humane.

From the issue of the politics of language the poem then passes on to the subject of sexual politics in a patriarchy-dominated society where a girl attaining puberty is told about her biological changes by some domineering parental figure. As the girl seeks fulfilment of her adolescent passion, a young lover is forced upon her to traumatize and coerce the female-body since the same is the site for patriarchy to display its power and authority. When thereafter, she opts for male clothing to hide her femininity, the guardians enforce typical female attire, with warnings to fit into the socially determined attributes of a woman, to become a wife and a mother and get cofined to the domestic routine. She is threatened to remain within the four walls of her female space lest she should make herself a psychic or a maniac.

But the poet is an individual woman trying to voice a universal womanhood and trying to share her experiences, good or bad, with all other women. Love and sexuality are a strong component in her search for female identity and the identity consists of polarities. The poem ends with repetitions of the 1st person sigular I to suggest vindication of the body and the self.

Answer 2

Summary

Nani is a poem taken from the collection The Old Playhouse And other Poems by the prolific Malayalam woman writer Kamala Das. The poem speaks of the death of Nani, a pregnant maid who hanged herself in a privy. It took three hours for the police to come, and to the children it seemed that she was doing a dance. Afterward the privy was abandoned and overgrown, becoming sort of a shrine.

After a year or two the narrator asks her grandmother about Nani, and the grandmother doesn't remember, and asks "Nani... who is she?" The narrator explains that this question was the end of Nani. That each truth in life ends with such a question, and that we are lucky if we move on before the answers come.

Interpretation

The poem can be interpreted many ways, of course. To me, the author is saying that we block things out that we want to forget and actually forge reality for ourselves that way, without doubts and fears. We're lucky when people don't jog those hard memories back to the forefront... when we can have peace rather than facing our ghosts. It's a blessing that time heals us that way, but it also might not be the whole truth. :)

Other people interpret the poem a little bit differently, as the following: The poet ironically says that the privy becomes a shrine, and that everybody including the grandmother are dismissive of the very thought of Nani. They face every question regarding Nani with a "designated deafness," but, the poet, unable to join this indifferent crowd, delves into the the very mystery of Nani through her imagination. Finally, the poet identifies herself with the dead Nani, the symbol of indispensable womanhood. The poem is confessional in tone.

Answer 3

"The Dance of the Eunichs" is about hot weather that seemed oppressive and showed no signs of breaking until the Eunichs showed up. They came onto the scene, began their dance, and soon, it began to rain.

Answer 4

The poem is from The Descendants.It is a kind of advice to women in general as regards lovemaking.The poets says that getting a man to love a woman is easy,she has only to be uninhibited in her behaviour.

Answer 5

summary of kamala das" dance of the eunuchs

Answer 6

This is something that you can find out if you read the poem. It will become obvious once you begin reading.

Answer 7

problem faced by women in the poem ghanshyam

Answer 8

The poem is about how you put on your very best as you go out to give a certain idea of yourself. When in reality there's alot going within people and the world as a whole.

Answer 9

Analysis is too dauntless. Analysis is so much more discomfited