Kamala Das is a great confessional poet of the age. She knows the technique of depicting society, history and female position. This poem purely highlights the feminine point of view and the different stages a female faces in her life. Kamala Das has again and again depicted through her writings that one woman can understand unsaid words of another woman. The great grandmother of Kamala Das who once was decorated with jewels - sandals (for perfume) - oils -elephant rides symbolic of marriage to a prince and her youthful days are suddenly lost after the death of her husband. The status of a woman is reduced after her husband's soul departs. Their 300-year-old house has got eternal connect with the great grandmother.