2.5 Father Returning Home

2.5 Father Returning Home

Q. 1 A Read the extract and do all the activities given below.

A1. Complete the web chart.

A2. Find the lines to prove the facts from the poem.

a. Father is isolated from the society and family.

b. Generation Gap

A3. Write a character sketch of your father.

A4. Find examples of transferred epithet and synecdoche.

A5. Replace the words from the following lines and rewrite :

Home again, I see him drinking weak tea

Eating a stale Chapati, reading a book.

Answers

A.1

Bag stuffed with books falling apart

Raincoat stained with mud

Sticky Chappals

Soggy shirts and pants

Dimmed eyes

Unseeing eyes

A2.a. Father is isolated from the society and family. " Like a word dropped from a long

sentence"

b. Generation Gap " His sullen children have often refused to share jokes and

secretes with him "

A3. My father is a farmer. He works very hard. He wears paijama and kurta. His hands became

rough with hard work. He works in the field.

A4. Transferred epithet: humid monsoon night- The adjective humid is transferred from weather

to night.

Synecdoche : eating a stale Chapati - Chapati stands for food, the part symbolises whole.

A5. Home again, I see him drinking strong coffee

Eating fresh food, writing a story.

Brainstorming Activities

Write a poetic appreciation of the poem 2.5 ‘Father Returning Home’ with the help of the following points.

·       About the poem / poet and the title.   

·       The theme

·       Poetic Style

·       Language /Poetic devices

·       Special features

·       Message, values, morals in the poem

·       Your opinions about the poem

Dilip Chitre was a celebrated bilingual poet. He was a translator with a remarkable work in Marathi and English.

The poem ’Father Returning Home’ is taken from ‘Traveling in a cage’- by Dilip Chitre. It draws a portrait of a suburban father as commuter.

The poem depicts dull and monotonous routine of father. The father is alienated in his home. His children refuse to share their joys and sorrows with the hardworking father. This painful loneliness is a symbol of man’s isolation from the materialistic man-made world.

The poem has no regular rhyming words and rhyme scheme. The poem is divided into two stanzas. In the first stanza the vivid description of father as a commuter draws the attention. In the second stanza his painful loneliness at home is shown. Simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia and synecdoche, transferred epithet are the striking figures of speech used in the poem.

                       The underlying message of the poem generation gap in the modern age has created disrespect for the elders. In spite of all the odds the father devote his life for the children.