My mother at sixty-six / kamala Das / CBSE Class- XII / English
My mother at sixty-six (CBSE CLASS -XII) ( Kamala Das) "My Mother at Sixty-six" is a poignant poem by the renowned Indian poet Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Surayya). It captures the emotion and vulnerability of a daughter witnessing her aging mother's fragility during a journey. Here's the poem: 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 of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away, and looked out at young trees sprinting, the cattle on their way to graze, the fields all muddled up with young green crops, and felt that old childhood sinking and all my tall self dissolve in pity for that immense loneliness of her's, thinking of her had been the one comfort of my difficult years, and now, well, if anything happened to her? As at the time of my father