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प्रश्न
The poet deals with the theme of man’s estrangement from a manmade world. Analyze it with the help of poem.
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उत्तर
The poem deals with the theme of the poet’s father’s estrangement from a man-made world. The remark implies that the man finds himself as a no-one in the midst of many people around him, who do not care for him at all. He is just one among the countless and finds himself alienated by not just the outsiders, but also his own family members. The man-made world refers to the social system in which this man carries on with his routine life.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Discuss with your partner the difficulties that you face while commuting to and from the college by public transport.
(a) ____________________
(b) ____________________
(c) ____________________
(d) ____________________
The similar problems are faced by the other commuters on the way to their work place. Imagine their plight and suggest three solutions.
Complete the following table.
| A | B |
| The way our elders take care of us | The way you can take care of elders in your family. |
| 1. Love and protect us | 1. Help them with daily chores |
| 2. ____________ | 2. ____________ |
| 3. ____________ | 3. ____________ |
Write your duties towards the following:
Discuss with your friend the difficulties faced by the father in the poem.
(a) ______________________
(b) _____________________
(c) ______________________
(d) _____________________
Discuss the character sketch of the father with the help of the given points.
(His pathetic condition, the treatment he receives at home, his solitude, the way he tries to overcome it)
Find the line to prove the following fact from the poem.
Father is deprived of good food.
Find the line to prove the following fact from the poem.
Children did not have a healthy relation with the father.
The father contemplates about his past and peeps into his future. Give reasons.
Write an appreciation of the poem ‘Father Returning Home’.
Compose a short poem in about 4-6 lines on your father.
Dilip Chitre has translated Sant Tukaram’s ‘Abhang’ (devotional poem) for which he received Sahitya Akademi Award. Browse the internet to collect more information about it.
List various occupations related to services which can be rendered to senior citizens.
- To counsel patients of Alzheimer’s disease.
- _______________________
- _______________________
Appreciation:
My father travels on the late evening train
Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light
Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes
His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat
Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books
Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
He hurries across the length of the grey platform,
Crosses the railway line, enters the lane,
His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward.
Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,
Eating a stale chapati, reading a book.
He goes into the toilet to contemplate
Man's estrangement from a man-made world.
Coming out he trembles at the sink,
The cold water running over his brown hands,
A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists.
His sullen children have often refused to share
Jokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep
Listening to the static on the radio, dreaming
Of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking
Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass.
Read the extract carefully and write an appreciation of the poem considering the following points.
- About the poet and the title
- The theme
- Poetic style, Language, poetic devices.
- Special feature
- Values
- Your opinion about the poem
Read the given extract and complete the activities given below:
Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,
Eating a stale chapati, reading a book.
He goes into the toilet to contemplate
Man's estrangement from a man-made world.
Coming out he trembles at the sink,
The cold water running over his brown hands,
A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists.
His sullen children have often refused to share
Jokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep
Listening to the static on the radio, dreaming
Of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking
Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass. wrists.
A1. Complete the given flowchart about father’s activities at home. (2)
| Drinking weak tea, eating stale chapati ↓ _________________________________________ ↓ _________________________________________ ↓ Listening to the static on the radio |
A2. Find the lines to highlight the relation of children and father. (2)
- ________________________________
- ________________________________
A3. Would you like to celebrate ‘Father’s day’? If yes how/If not why? (2)
A4. Name the figure of speech in the following line and give one more example. (2)
“coming out he trembles at the sink”
A5. Read the following lines and add two poetic lines to rhyme with line. (2)
He will now go to sleep
Listening to static on the radio
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