“I was a child, and later they Told me I grew, for I became tall, my limbs Swelled and one or two places sprouted hair”—Explain. OR, “He did not beat me But my sad woman-body felt so beaten.”—Explain.

“I was a child, and later they 

Told me I grew, for I became tall, my limbs

Swelled and one or two places sprouted hair”—Explain.

/OR/

“He did not beat me

But my sad woman-body felt so beaten.”—Explain.

Answer: In the poem An Introduction, the poetess Kamala Das has presented the pathetic condition of Indian women. Here the feminine poetic persona has been presented as 'I'. That woman was once a child. Though her physical appearance seemed to be adult, her state of mind was like a child and full of innocence. But the male dominated society wanted to get her married quickly because she was growing up. She was not agreeing to get married but in the eye of society that girl had no right to remain unmarried even when she had not crossed her childhood. It shows that the girl had nothing to do anything in the society like education, play etc. except marriage. There nobody gave any importance to her will.