Kamala Das speaks of an old familiar ache….. What do you think is the reason for this feeling?
Answer:
Kamla Das’s mother is old and pale and her health seems to be deteriorating, So, the poet feels a familiar pain, which is one of her constant fears that she might lose her mother. She has an ache inside her heart that she might not be able to see her mother again.
Kamala Das speaks of an old familiar ache