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Themes: morals and age inconvenient truths fragile safety in forgotten truth read more "Was doing, to delight us, a comic Dance... " Innocence of childhood - gravity of the situation later understood "Became an altar then, a sunny shrine" Nani's memory sacrificed for some truths "With that question ended Nani. Each truth Ends thus with a query. ..." Truth dies when its credibility is questioned. Also, question remains unanswered - answered, instead, with a question The fact that it is not answered means that the Grandmother has not made peace with it consciousness of speaker differs vastly from that of those (adults, elders) around her Deliberate movement from fact to emotion to philosophical questioning "... It is this designed Deafness that turns mortality into Immortality, the definite into The soft indefinite. ..." Nani the woman of flesh and bone dies, but the idea of Nani remains.

The poem My Grandmother's House has taken many, many classes, with varying levels of productivity, to complete. To begin with, there was a brief discussion about the poet herself - her life, background, style etc. In the next class, to "set the mood," we shared our memories of our grandparents, and the lessons we've learnt from them. In the last class, owing to the fact that not everyone had their textbooks, Sir briefly discussed (again) the poet, and the poem. There was a depressing reading-out in class, as well. Now for the notes. free verse house changed by death of grandmother: "The house withdrew into silence, snakes moved among books" "blind eyes of windows" = nobody inside? "frozen air" "Darkness" Author changed by death of grandmother: "my blood turned cold like the moon" Otherwise change in author: "once/ I received love" "was proud, and loved" "... I ...