2.5 Father Returning Home

2.5 Father Returning Home

Question Bank Activity

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. (02) 

Drinking weak tea , eating stale chapati 

                            ⬇️

....,............................................

                            ⬇️

.........................,...................................

                            ⬇️

Listening to the static on the radio

Ans : Drinking weak tea , eating stale chapati 

                            ⬇️

Contemplating in toilet

                            ⬇️

Trembling at the sink while cleaning hands

                            ⬇️

Listening to the static on the radio

A2 Find the lines to highlight the relation of children and father. (02)

a) His sullen children have often refused to share

Jokes and secrets with him.

b) Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,

Eating a stale chapati.

A3 Would you like to celebrate ‘Father’s day’? If yes how/ If not why? (02)

Ans : No, I don't like to celebrate 'Father's Day' . For me every day is a parent's day. Celebrating one day in their name and not respecting on all other days is not a wise idea. Instead of celebrating one day I prefer to listen to them and talk to them. I want to be there whenever they need me. 

A4 Name the figure of speech in the following line and give one more example. (02)

“coming out he trembles at the sink”

Ans : Hyperbole - The statement is exaggerated.

A5 Read the following lines and add two poetic lines to rhyme with line. (02)

He will now go to sleep

Listening to static on the radio

……………………………………………….

Ans : He will now go to sleep

Listening to static on the radio

With vibrant audio

Till he gets sound sleep.

Activity Sheet No 2

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.

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.

 

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.

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.

2.5 Father Returning Home

2.5 Father Returning Home

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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Created by-

Prof. Sanju Pardeshi,

Chembur, Mumbai

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Dr. Tukaram Babulal Salunkhe

(M. A. B.Ed. M.Phil. Ph.D.)

Janata Shikshan Sanstha's

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Ice Breakers- (Part-1)

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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.

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.