My Grand Mother’s House is a wonderful poem written by Kamala Das. In this poem, the poetess describes a particular house, where she spent the 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 around the house. But, when her grandmother died and the speaker began to live in another place. And the condition of the house becomes very bad.

Everywhere around 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 but 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 how she lived with her grandmother in the house, where she was too young.

• D. H. Lawrence
• Kamala Das
• Keki N. Daruwala
• John Donne

Answer:- Kamala Das

• Indian
• American
• African
• Nigerian

• mother
• father
• grandfather
• grandmother

• family’s
• friend’s
• enemy’s
• stranger’s

• My Grand Mother’s House
• Song of Myself
• Ode to Autumn
• None of these

• Ode to Autumn
• Fire Hymn
• My Grand Mother’s House
• None of these

• cat
• cow
• ox
• dog

• Snake
• My Grand Mother’s House
• Ode to Autumn
• Song of Myself

• April 31, 1933
• April 31, 1934
• April 31, 1943
• April 31, 1984

Answer:- April 31, 1934

11. What moved freely in the silent house?

• Lizards
• Snakes
• Cockroaches
• Dogs

Answer:- Snakes

12. Kamala Das, poet and short-story writer have earned a respectable place in both English and ………….

• Hindi
• Telugu
• Malayalam
• Urdu

Answer:- Malayalam

13. Autobiography of Kamla Das was published in …………….

• 1976
• 1966
• 1986
• 1996

Answer:- 1976

14. Which figure of speech has been used in ‘My Grandmother’s House’?

• metaphor
• personification
• epic simile
• simile

Answer:- simile

15. When did the speaker of ‘My Grandmother’s House’ live with her grandmother?

• during her childhood
• during her adolescence
• during her youth
• None of these

Answer:- during her childhood

16. ‘My Grandmother’s House’ is ……………

• a sonnet
• anode
• a ballad
• a lyric

Answer:- a lyric

17. ‘My Grandmother’s House’ published in …………..

• ‘Descendants’
• ‘Summer in Calcutta’
• The Old Playhouse and Other Poems
• None of these

Answer:- ‘Summer in Calcutta’

18. The poetess in ‘The Grand Mother’s House’ begs at …. doors.[2018]

• friend’s
• family’s
• stranger’s
• enemy’s

Answer:- stranger’s

19. ‘Behind my bedroom’s door like a brooding’ is written by ……………

• Rupert Brooke
• Kamala Das
• Keki N. Daruwalla
• T.S. Eliot

Answer:- Kamala Das

1. What feelings did the poetess have after her grandmother’s death?

Ans:- As a young child, the poetess, Kamala Das enjoyed her children in her grandmother’s house. But after the death of her grandmother whom she deeply loved, she was completely lost and felt quite lonely and depressed.

2. Who showered love and affection on the poetess?

Ans:- It was her grandmother who showered love and affection on the poetess when she was a child.

3. What happened to the house after her grandmother died?

Ans:- The ‘House withdrew’ after her death. The house was so stunned by her death that it no longer wanted to stay there and in course of time, it got deserted.

4. Has anyone filled her heart with love?

Ans:- No, her heart has not been filled with love by anybody.

5. What were the things the poetess found in that house?

Ans:- The poet was very young at that time. There were a large number of books in the house, which seemed to be repulsive and horrible like snakes.

6. What happened to the House after her grandmother died?

Ans:- The House was deserted after her grandmother died. No one lived there.

7. What does she want from ‘strangers’ I Does she get it?

Ans:- She yearns for love and legs it even from strangers but fails to get it. She is hungry for love. Unfortunately, nobody fills her heart with life-nourishing emotion of love.

8. Is the speaker satisfied with her present life? If not, why?

Ans:- The speaker is not satisfied with her present life. She is hungry for love. Nobody can fill her with selfless and pure love. The world is rife with corruption, deceit, and pollution of every sort.

9. Which has been called horrible and repulsive like snakes?

Ans:- A large number of books that she found in her grandmother’s house have been called horrible and repulsive like snakes.

10. What kind of music does she want to hear sitting at the window of her grandmother’s house?

Ans:- She wants to go to her grandmother’s house and listen to the dreary music of the blowing cold winter winds.

After her grandmother died, the house was left neglected. No one lives there. The books are uncared. Snakes often enter there. She was a child to read these books then.

To see the horrible conditions of that house now she feels shocked and cool like the moon. The poet is nostalgic about her grandmother’s house.

2. “There is a house now far away from where once
I received love. Women died,
The house drew into Silence.”

>>> These lines have been taken from the poem “My Grandmother’s House” which is written by Kamala Das. There the poetess described her grandmother’s house which was far away from where she received too much love.

Due to the death of her grandmother, there was complete silence in the house where she used to live once.