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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to express our special thanks
of gratitude to our teacher MR.SANTOSH
SIR who gave us the golden opportunity to
do this wonderful project on the topic “MY
MOTHER AT SIXTYS SIX”, which also
helped us in doing a lot of research & came
to know about so many new things we are
really thankful for them.

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 january
2021

MY MOTHER AT
SIXTY SIX
-BY KAMLA
DAS
 POEM OUTLINE
THE POEM HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN LYRICAL IDIOMS AND IT BRINGS OUT THE
COMPLEXITY OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP THE POET HAD GONE TO MEET HER
MOTHER AND NOW driving back to airport the way she notice pale face of mother and
she struck with an instant of realization that her mother is very old and the poet is very upset
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POET-
Kamla das

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T HE poet, Kamala Das also wrote by her pen- ABOUT
name of ‘Madhavikutty’. She was born in Kerala
and is one of India’s first poets. Her subject –
matter is basically related to her personality-
THE POET
beautiful, sensitive, bold and tormented. External
factors do not reflect in her writings, her writings
bring out her true inner feelings.
Her favorite poem is ‘composition’.
In the poem ‘My mother at sixty six’, she talks
about her mother. This poem is based on mother-
daughter relation and the poet shares her feelings
for her mother.
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 Firstly, when the author going to the Cochin airport
with her mother she looks at her carefully and
presents before us her image. As she looks at her
Stanza 1- mother’s soft and whitish face, she gets stuck with
the fear of losing her mother. Her mother with a
sleepy face and open mouth is comparable to a
Driving from my parents corpse. Here, the author shows love and affection in
Home to cochin last Friday a relationship between a mother and a daughter.
Morning I saw my mother. Beside me,
Doze open mothed her face ashen like that of a corpe

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 Stanza 2 -
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 merry
children spilling out of their homes,
• The poet is hurt and sad and shifts her attention outside the car
for driving out the undesirable feelings. She changes her bad
mood. The scene from the window of the car is of rising life and
energy. The fast sprinting green and huge trees alongside the
cheerfully playing kids represent life, youth, and vitality. The
poet here is remembering about her own childhood. In her
childhood, her mother was young and beautiful. Whereas now
her mother is surrounded by the fear of losing her life and that
made her insecure and sad.

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 Stanza3 After the airport’s security check, standing a few yards away, I looked again at
her, wan, pale as a late winter’s moon.

She reaches the airport to take her flight. It shows departure and parting which makes
her sad. As she said goodbye to her mother, the image of the old mother in the dusk of
years strikes her. Here again, a simile is comparable with her mother with a late-night
moon of the winters. The light of the moon is an obstacle by the fog and haze as she
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appears older now.
 • The poet is now feeling the pain of getting separated because of
leaving her mother. Her childhood fear of losing her loving
Stanza 4 mother now became so terrifying. Now her mother could die of
old age anytime unexpectedly. She is so sad that she starts crying
slowly without control but keeping a brave heart she hides her
tears and starts smiling. Thus, she offers her farewell to her old
mother and keeps her hope of seeing her mother alive again. She
and felt that old familiar ache, my childhood’ssays “see you soon, Amma”. She hides her tears and sorrow as she
fear, but all I said was, see you soon, Amma, does not want to make a painful and emotional environment.
all I did was smile and smile and smile...... Moreover, she doesn’t want her mother to cry and shows her that
she is enjoying her life. She expects her mother to be happy and
enjoy her life just like her.

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 CONCLUSION
To conclude, my mother at sixty six summary
revolves around the beautiful relationship
between the poet and her mother. The summary
shows the theme of the advancing age of the
mother of the author and the fear of separation.
This apparently short poem touches upon the
theme of a beautiful bond between the mother
and the daughter. It shows how beautiful a
relationship a mother and a daughter can have.

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 ---------------- Paliitana temple in Gujrat
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GUJRAT
Gujarat is famous for its traditional
clothing, food and natural landscape.
Asiatic lions, Rann of Kutch (White
Desert), colourful handicrafts,
festival and culture are some of the
things that make Gujarat famous.

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 GUJRAT--JAINISM
Pallavi Doshi teaches Indian Culture & History to Pathshala teens at the Jain Center of
Southern California. She is interested in nature and travel, and how these themes interact
in the arts. Her hobbies include painting and writing poetries.
Pallavi dosji---
History of Jainism in gujrat • .

• Jain temples are found in Gujarat from as early

as the 6th and 7th centuries CE. It was
patronized by the Chaulukyas and Chavadas.
Dhank Caves (3rd-7th century CE) in Rajkot
district has Jain Tirthankara carvings. Northern
Gujarat became a principle center of Jainism in
the 13th century CE.

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“WE ARE GUEST
…..
---------------GUJRATI
POEM…

PALLAVI
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DOSHI--
 Gujrat literature---
History — Gujarati literature is divided
mainly into three eras or Yugas; the early,
medieval and modern, with these eras being
further subdivided.
Literature tradition in Gujarat is largely
linked to the Bhakti Movement and as it
swept across most of India during 12 -
17th Century, it began with the Poet
Narsinh Mehta (1414-1481) Narsinh
Mehta began the rise of
Gujarati Literature and is referred as
'Father of Literature
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 THANK YOU!
BY-Shivam randive , Tanishq singh, ritish nirmalkar , pushpesh singh
Aditya agarwal

Class
12 “A”
Project
English art Integrated project