Poet: Dilip Chtre
Dilip Purushottam
Chitre was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the
post-Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilingual writer,
writing in Marathi and English, he was also a teacher, a painter and filmmaker
and a magazine columnist.
He received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, both for poetry as well as for his well- known translation work ‘Says Tuka’, popular abhangas (spiritual poems) by Sant Tukaram. He had started translation of literary work of saints in Marathi at the age of 16. Exile, alienation self-disintegration and death are observed to be the major themes of h works.
About
poem
‘Father Returning Home’ this poem is taken from ‘Travelling in a Cage’. It draws a portrait of a suburban commuter. Poet here depicts his father’s dull, monotonous, exhausting and equally pitiable daily routine. It describes a forced alienation at home. His children refuse to share their joys and sorrows with the hardworking father who as a result is forced to live into solitude. This very painful loneliness is a symbol of man’s isolation from the materialistic man-made world.
ICE BREAKERS
1) List the difficulties that you
face while commuting to and from the college by public transport.
Answer:
a) Do not get place to
seat many times.
b) Have to face
unhygienic area due to extra crowd.
c) Bad and dirty
smell.
d) Broken seats and
noisy atmosphere.
e) Shouting of
sellers.
f) Garbage.
2) Suggest solutions to give relief
to the commuters on the way to their workplace.
Answer:
a) to give them our
place to sit.
b) to help them to
enter and go out from public transport.
c) to support them to
buy tickets.
d) to talk them to
feel comfortable and happy.
e) to share rides.
f) to offer lift.
3) 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 in daily chores. |
|
2.
Give money to spend |
2.
Speak kindly and share information |
|
3.
Help to solve our problems |
3.
Take care of their physical problems |
New words:
Commuters : those who travel regularly from one
place to another typically to work
Soggy : wet or heavy with water
Stained : soiled or discoloured spot
Falling apart : breaking into pieces
Fade : to lose freshness
Humid : damp
Grey platform : ‘grey’ suggests old age, dullness,
sordidness of a father’s life.
Contemplate : think deeply
Estrangement : alienation, loneliness
Stale : not fresh Contemplate
Tremble : to shake involuntarily
Cling : to adhere, to remain
Sullen : bad tempered
Static : not changing or developing (Here tedious
voice of the radio)
Ancestors : a person in one’s family who lived a
long time before.
Subcontinent : a large landmass that forms part a
continent
Nomads : migrants, gypsy
Narrow pass : the Khyber Pass , Aryans, the people
enter the Indian subcontinent through the Khyber Pass in the ancient time.
Brainstorming:
A1.
(i) Give
the difficulties faced by the father in the poem.
Answer: The difficulties faced by the father
are-
a) The father is
returning late in the day.
b) His eyesight is
dimmed due to old age.
c) The father has to
stand in the train during journey.
d) He struggles to
handle the bag of books.
e) He is in wet
clothes for a long time when he is travelling.
(ii) Write
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)
Answer:
a) The father has to
stand in the train when he is returning home late.
b) He drinks weak tea
and eats stale chapati at home.
c) There is no one to
communicate or share views with him at home.
d) He tries to
overcome it by dreaming his golden past and expectations from the future.
A2.
(i) Given below are
the ideas conveyed through the poem. Match the pairs and draw out the hidden
meaning from those expressions.
Answer:
|
|
Expressions |
Meanings |
|
|
(a) |
Children avoid
expressing themselves. |
Hostility of children. |
|
|
(b) |
Father was deprived of refreshing hot beverages or nourishing diet. |
His basic daily
requirements were also not catered to. |
|
|
(c) |
The father hurries home crossing railway line. |
Father is so eager to meet family members that he even doesn’t bother
about his safety. |
|
|
(d) |
The father
was destined to listen only to the cracking sounds on media. |
The father couldn’t
even fulfil the least expectation of entertaining himself. |
|
|
(e) |
His sordid
present is devoid of any hope. |
Indulge into past and future. |
|
|
(f) |
The father’s endless comminuting distance him from his
children. |
Father is
not less than any tribal wanderer, a modern normed. |
|
|
(g) |
Suburban
area, visible through the train, is past unnoticed. |
Because
there is hardly anything enchanting/
interesting in the monotonous routine journey to look out
of the window. |
|
|
(h) |
He is just
as a small word, dropping from a sentence. |
Has least
value in the society where his presence or absence might hardly make any
difference. |
|
|
(i) |
He doesn’t
get a place in a crowded train. |
Uncomfortable
journey. |
|
(ii) Find the lines
to prove the following facts from the poem.
a) Father is
deprived of good food.
Answer:-
Home again, I see him
drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati, reading a book.
b) Children did not
have a healthy relation with the father.
Answer:-
His sullen children have often refused to
share
Jokes and secrets with
him.
Dr. Tukaram Babulal Salunkhe
(M. A. B.Ed. M.Phil. Ph.D.)
Janata Shikshan Sanstha's
Shri Shivaji Vidya Mandir & Jr. College, Aundh, Pune-07
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5 comments:
Dear Pardeshi Sir,
Your work is appreciable.
Great work sir
Awesome !
Nicely presented the whole poem by touching its every aspect.
Well done!
Super
thank you sir
awesome
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