2.5 Father Returning Home
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 elderstake care of us | The way you can take care ofelders 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 endlesscomminuting 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 hardlyanything enchanting/ interesting in themonotonous 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.
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Video Created by:
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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Ice Breakers- (Part-1)
Father Returning Home-Dilip Chitre
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Ice Breakers- (Part-2)
Father Returning Home-Dilip Chitre
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Poem-Father Returning Home - Dilip Chitre
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