My Mother at Sixty-Six

Rudraksh Pratap Singh

XII-A
 About The Poetess
Kamla Das was born on 31st March 1934 in
Malabar Kerela she was an Indian English poet
and literature and at the time Malayalam author in
Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and
autobiography written under the name of while
her literature in English under the name Kamla
Das is noted for the poems and explicit
autobiography..
 Central Idea
Ageing is an important phase of human life. A person enters his childhood
experience is Youth when he is full of energy and dreams to have luxury of
life finally approaches his old age and encounters death relationship
between the people becomes stronger at every aspect of life and they can’t
be a separation due to ageing. On her way to the airport from her parent’s
house as she is leaving for Cochin. The poetess notices how old her
mother has grown for the first time. She is disturbed and turns her eyes
away to focus on young trees and younger children instead. Again after the
security check at the airport, she notices her mother’s aging face. This fills
her with the fear she had experience since childhood-that of her mother
dying, but she does not let that fear show on her face. She siles and bids
her mother goodbye, promising to see her soon.