Fed on God for years All her feasts were monotonous For the only dish was always God And the rest mere condiments.

Fed on God for years

All her feasts were monotonous

For the only dish was always God

And the rest mere condiments.

Ans. Context: These lines are taken from poem Blood composed by Kamala Das.

Explanation: The remorse that Kamala Das feels at havingfailed to abide by the values associated with the old house and the grandmother is more clearly expressed in the poem “Blood” which runs at two levels literal and allegorical.

At the literal level it describes the remote ancestry and the old blood of her family of which her great grandmother was the living example.

The great grandmother was deeply religious having been “fed on God for years”, and proud of the purity of her family’s blood. She was, however, greatly concerned about the threatened ruin of the old house.

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