ICE BREAKERS
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.
Solutions
giving them your place to sit
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
2.
3.
1. Help them in daily chores.
2.
3.
Write your duties towards the following-
2.5 Father Returning Home
Family
Parents Siblings Grandparents
School / College
Teachers ClassmatesDilip Chitre (1938 to 2009) was a celebrated bilingual poet and
translator with a remarkable work in Marathi and English. His
versatile creativity extends to painting, film-making and his notable
contribution as 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 his
works.
This poem is taken from ‘Travelling in a Cage’. It draws a portrait of a suburban
commuter. It depicts his dull, monotonous, exhausting and equally pitiable daily routine. It
describes a forced alienation at home, which is reflected through the stale food and lack of
sharing. His children refuse to share their joys and sorrows with the hardworking father who
as a result is forced to retire into solitude. This very painful loneliness is a symbol of man’s
isolation from the materialistic man-made world.
Father Returning Home
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.commuters : those who
travel regularly from one
place to another typically
to work
grey platform : It is grey
due to cement. Here, ‘grey’
suggests old age, dullness,
sordidness of a father’s l
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 hair 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.
-Dilip Chitre
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contemplate : think deeply
estrangement : alienation
sullen : bad tempered
Refusal of the children to
share jokes and secrets
indicates :
(1) They are angry
(2) Generation gap
(3) Lack of concern
BRAINSTORMING
(A1) (i) Discuss with your friend the difficulties faced by the father in the poem.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(ii) 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)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(A2) (i) Given below are the ideas conveyed through the poem. Match the pairs
and draw out the hidden meaning from those expressions.
Expressions Meaning
(a) Children avoid expressing
themselves.
(1) Father is so eager to meet family
members that he even doesn’t bother
about his safety.
(b) Father was deprived of refreshing
hot beverages or nourishing diet.
(2) Hostility of children
(c) The father hurries home crossing
railway line
(3) Indulge into his past and future.
(d) The father was destined to listen
only to the cracking sounds on
media.
(4) Uncomfortable journey
(e) His sordid present is devoid of
any hope.
(5) His basic daily requirements were also
not catered to.
(f) The father’s endless commuting
distance him from his children
(6) Father is not less than any tribal
wanderer, a modern nomad.
(g) Suburban area, visible through
the train, is past unnoticed.
(7) Has least value in the society where his
presence or absence might hardly make
any difference.(h) He is just as a small word,
dropping from a sentence.
(8) Because there is hardly anything
enchanting / interesting in the
monotonous routine journey to look out
of the window
(i) He doesn’t get a place in a
crowded train.
(9) The father couldn’t even fulfil the least
expectation of entertaining himself.
(ii) Find the lines to prove the following facts from the poem.
(a) Father is deprived of good food.
(b) Children did not have a healthy relation with the father.
(iii) The poet deals with the theme of man’s estrangement from a man-made
world. Analyze it with the help of the poem.
(iv) The father contemplates about his past and peeps into his future. Give
reasons.
(A3) Complete the following using suitable describing words as appeared in the
poem with the help of the words given in the brackets :
(weak, dim, muddy, soggy, stale)
(a) Father’s attire
(b) Father’s tea
(c) Father’s footware
(d) Father’s food
(e) Father’s eyesight
(A4) (i) 'Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night'.
In the above line the weather is humid, not the night. The epithet or adjective
is transferred from the weather to the night. This figure of speech is Transferred
Epithet.
Find out such other expressions from the poem.
(ii) Identify and write the lines from the poem which express the following
figures of speech.
Figures of speech Lines
1. Simile
2. Alliteration
3. Onomatopoeia
1.
2.
3.(iii) I see him drinking weak tea, eating a stale chapati.
Here ‘stale chapati’ stands for stale food/non-nourishing food or diet, where
the part symbolizes the whole, i.e. food. Guess the name of the figure of
speech.
(A5) (i) Write a counterview on the following topic.
“Every day is a mother’s/ father’s day.”
(a) If you love them, you don’t need to wait for such days.
(b) Celebrating days is just a formality.
(c) Celebrations of the days condition your expression of emotions.
(d) It is a kind of a pretext to neglect your everyday responsibilities.
(ii) Conduct a group discussion on the role of children towards their 'Parents
and Senior Citizens'.
(iii) Write an appreciation of the poem 'Father Returning Home'.
(iv) Compose a short poem in about 4-6 lines on your father.
(v) Write a character sketch of your family member.
(A6) (i) 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.
(ii) List various occupations related to services which can be rendered to senior
citizens.
(a) To counsel patients of Alzheimers' disease.
(b)
(c)
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