The Dance of the Eunuchs Quiz Part -1 : 20 MCQs on Kamala Das’s Iconic Poem

Today’s post is on The Dance of the Eunuchs Quiz Part -1. We are here with 20 multiple choice question covering the poem.

The Dance of the Eunuchs is a famous poem of Kamala Das. The main theme of the poem deals with unfulfilled love or desires. The poem represents the supressed desires of the poetess. The Dance of the Eunuchs is the first poem in Kamala Das’s first volume of poems “Summer in Calcutta“, which was published in 1965.

Text of the Dance of the Eunuchs by Kamala Das

It was hot, so hot, before the eunuchs came

To dance, wide skirts going round and round, cymbals

Richly clashing, and anklets jingling, jingling

Jingling… Beneath the fiery gulmohur, with

Long braids flying, dark eyes flashing, they danced and

They dance, oh, they danced till they bled… There were green

Tattoos on their cheeks, jasmines in their hair, some

Were dark and some were almost fair. Their voices

Were harsh, their songs melancholy; they sang of

Lovers dying and or children left unborn….

Some beat their drums; others beat their sorry breasts

And wailed, and writhed in vacant ecstasy.

TheyWere thin in limbs and dry; like half-burnt logs from

Funeral pyres, a drought and a rottennessWere in each of them.

Even the crows were soSilent on trees, and the children wide-eyed, still;

All were watching these poor creatures’ convulsions

The sky crackled then, thunder came, and lightning

And rain, a meagre rain that smelt of dust in

Attics and the urine of lizards and mice…

Kamala Das’s The Dance of the Eunuchs Quiz Part -1

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Source : Reflection of Feminine Plight in Transgender Literature – A Critical Study of Kamala Das’s The Dance of the Eunuchs (Dr Jyotsana Shakuntala)

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