SUMMER IN
CALCUTTA --------- Kamala Das
1.
Give the
central idea of the poem, ‘Summer in Calcutta’
Ans: The poetess kamala Das
expresses her feelings of life in the poem, ‘Summer in Calcutta’. She enjoys the April sun like orange juice
that intoxicates her. She wants to drink again and again. Small bubbles dance
in a circle at the brim of the glass. She feels this sensation both physically
and mentally. She also imagines that the small bubbles kiss her lips like a
bride who with her nervous smile comes close to her husband for the first time
in life. The sensation is very maddening and she wants to be forgiven by her lover
whom she forgets for a moment. She drinks the juice of April sun repeatedly
with pleasure though it is really unpleasant.
2.
Give the
substance of the poem ‘Summer in Calcutta’
Ans: Summer has set in Calcutta.
The warm sunlight of April is like a delicious drink. To the poetess, it is
orange juice in tumbler. She drinks this liquid formed of golden sun-rays. Now
she is feeling an intoxicating pleasure. She drinks again and again and enjoys
the state of trance. The small bubbles in her glass of drink meet her lips
giving her great sensuous pleasure. The poetess wants to be forgiven by her
lover for not wanting him and also for his being blurred in her memory. Now
this moment’s lull is of supreme important to her. So with glass in hand she
goes on drinking the juice of April sun.
3.
‘’Dear,
forgive me
This moment’s lull’’----- Who
says this? Why does the speaker want to forgiven?
Ans: The poetess, Kamala Das, in her poem ‘Summer in Calcutta’ says this.
She begs pardon from the season
of summer because she has enjoyed the warmth and beauty of the season. But yet
she thinks that she has not devoted herself fully to the beauty of the season. It
has been interrupted by the drunken state of mind as she busied herself in drinking
the warmth of the season.
4. ‘’My worries doze’’--- Who is the speaker? What
does the speaker mean to say here?
Ans: The poetess
Kamala Das is the speaker here.
The speaker is
enjoying the juice of April sun. The drink in her glass gives her a feeling of
drowsy numbness which gives her an intoxicating pleasure. She continues to
drink the juice of fire and the juice brings such pleasure in her mind that she
becomes forgetful of the worries and anxieties from which she suffers terribly
5. ‘I sip the fire’—How does the poetess sip
the fire? What is its effect upon her?
Ans: The
poetess drinks the fire slowly and in small quantities.
The drink
of fire does not cause the poetess any sort of physical discomfort. It brings
her mind to such a state that she becomes forgetful of the tormenting heat of
the summer. The drink of the fire provides her with intoxication which turns
into imaginative pleasure.
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