Father Returning Home by Dilip Chitre

    🔍 Table of Content:

• Theme of the poem

• Theme in Marathi (मराठी)

• ICEBREAKER

• Margin Activity

• Brainstorming

• Appreciation of the Poem

Theme of the poem 

The poem is composed by Dilip Chitre This poem is taken from the collection of poems 'Travelling In a cage. The theme of the poem is man's forced solitude from the man-made world. In the poem, Father is a commuter who has a dull, exhausting daily routine. This routine is also pitiable, for he has to travel inconveniently every day.

He rushes home without bothering about his safety, as he is eager to meet his family.

At home, He gets weak tea and stale chapati. Besides, he is deprived of warmth and affection, particularly from his children. His children, due to lack of concern for him, do not share their joy and sorrows with him.

Hence, he is forced into solitude, away from the man-made world. The poet concludes that the father is not than any tribal wanderer, but he is like a modern nomad.

Theme in Marathi ((मराठी) 

कविता दिलीप चित्रे यांनी रचली आहे ही कविता 'Travelling In a cage' या कवितासंग्रहातून घेतली आहे. कवितेची थीम मानवनिर्मित जगापासून माणसाचे सक्तीचे एकटेपणा आहे.

कवितेत, बाप एक प्रवासी आहे ज्याची निस्तेज, थकवणारा दैनंदिन दिनचर्या आहे.

हा दिनक्रम देखील दयनीय आहे, कारण त्याला दररोज गैरसोयीचा प्रवास करावा लागतो.

  तो आपल्या सुरक्षेची काळजी न करता घरी पोहोचतो, कारण तो आपल्या कुटुंबाला भेटण्यास उत्सुक असतो.

  घरी त्याला पातळ चहा आणि शिळी चपाती मिळते. याशिवाय, तो प्रेमापासून वंचित आहे, विशेषतः त्याच्या मुलांकडून. त्याची मुले, त्याच्याबद्दल काळजी नसल्यामुळे, त्यांचे आनंद आणि दुःख त्याच्याबरोबर सामायिक करत नाहीत.

त्यामुळे त्याला मानवनिर्मित जगापासून दूर एकांतात जाण्यास भाग पाडले जाते.

कवी असा निष्कर्ष काढतो की वडील हे कोणत्याही आदिवासी भटक्यापेक्षा नाहीत तर आधुनिक भटक्यासारखे आहेत.

ICE BREAKERS

➢ Discuss with your partner the difficulties that you face while commuting to and from the college by public transport.

(a) can be unreliable and inconvenient as they can delay due to traffic and their mechanical problem.

(b) can be uncomfortable particularly in crowded condition.

(c) can be time-consuming when one has to change different modes of transportation

(d) commuters can have the limitation of the availability of public transport.

➢The similar problems are faced by the other commuters on the way to work place. Imagine their plight and suggest three solutions.

Solutions:

• giving them your place to sit.
• help them by allowing them to step in or step out.
• help ladies ,senior citizen ,and children to get them their reserved seat.
• help them by holding their belongings.

➢ Complete the following table.

    A

The way our elders take care of us.

1. love and protect us.
2. They teach and guide us to resolve daily issues.
3. They provide us our basic needs

        B

The way you can take care of elders in your family.

1. Help them in their daily chores.
2. Be obedient
3. Taking care of them when they are unwell.

Margin Activity 

commuter :प्रवासी

 grey platform : राखाडी प्लॅटफॉर्म(राखाडी वृद्धत्व सूचित करते)

contemplate :चिंतन /  खोल विचार करणे.

sullen : (चिडल्यामुळे) दुर्मुखलेले 

Refusal of the children to share jokes and secrets indicates :

1.  They are angry
2. Generation gap
3. lack of concern

ans—lack of concern.

BRAINSTORMING 

(A1) (i) Discuss with your friend the difficulties faced by the father in the poem.

(a)  The father travels  standing late evening .

(b) His shirt and pants have become wet due to rain.

(c)  His raincoat has stained with mud. and his bag is full of books  those are falling apart.

(d) His chappals are sticky with muds.

(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) As he travels in the train, he hardly gets seat to occupy thus, most of the time stands during commuting. Besides His shirt and pants become wet due to rain. And his raincoat stains with mud owing to rain.

(b) At home he gets weak tea and stale chapati. In other words, no one from the family cares about him.

(c)  He feels alienated at home ,as his children do not share jokes and secrets with him.

(d) He tries to overcome his loneliness by listening radio.

(2) (ii) Find the lines to prove the following facts from the poem

(a) Father is deprived of good food.

Line: Home again, I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati,

(b) Children did not have a healthy relation with the father.

Line : His sullen children have often refused to share jokes and secrets with him.

(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 - soggy

(b) Father's tea - weak

(c) Father's footwear - muddy

(d) Father's food - stale

(e) Father's eyesight - dim

(A4) (ii) Identify and write the lines from the poem which express the following figures of speech.

 Figures of speech

1. Simile : Now I can see him getting off the train

                  Like a word dropped from a long sentence.

2. Alliteration :  Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes

                            / s/ is repeated.

3. Onomatopoeia :  static on the radio.

                                word 'static' 

(A5) (iii) Write an appreciation of the poem 'Father Returning Home'.

Ans :The poem is composed by Dilip Chitre. The theme of the poem is the father's alienation from the materialistic world. The first stanza of the poem describes the father's pathetic state as he returns home by train in the late evening. Since he hardly ever gets a seat to occupy in the train, most of the time he has to commute standing. His shirts and pants become wet, and his raincoat muddy. 

His eyesight has become poor due to age. He rushes home without caring about his safety as he is eager to meet his family.

The second stanza of the poem depicts the treatment he receives at home. Weak tea and stale chapati are served to him. The fact that he contemplates in the toilet implies that he is isolated from the world, especially from his children. Besides, his children never share their feelings without concern for him. Therefore, he listens to static radio while sleeping. Considering himself a modern nomad, he dreams of his ancestors and grandchildren.

The poet uses poetic devices like simile, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.

It is evident from the poem that the suburban middle class father's life is pathetic.

A suburban commuter, who is also a father, experiences painful loneliness through this poem.

कविता दिलीप चित्रे यांनी रचली आहे. कवितेचा विषय आहे वडिलांचा भौतिकवादी जगापासून अलिप्तपणा. कवितेच्या पहिल्या श्लोकात वडिलांच्या दयनीय अवस्थेचे वर्णन केले आहे जेव्हा ते संध्याकाळी उशिरा ट्रेनने घरी परततात. 

त्याला ट्रेनमध्ये बसण्यासाठी जागा मिळत नसल्यामुळे, बहुतेक वेळा त्याला उभे राहून प्रवास करावा लागतो. त्याचा शर्ट आणि पॅंट ओला झाला आणि रेनकोट चिखलाने माखलेला आहे . वयामुळे त्यांची दृष्टी कमी झाली आहे. तो आपल्या सुरक्षेची पर्वा न करता घराकडे धाव घेतो कारण तो आपल्या कुटुंबाला भेटण्यास उत्सुक असतो.

कवितेच्या दुसऱ्या श्लोकात त्याला घरी मिळणारी वागणूक दाखवली आहे. त्याला पातळ चहा आणि शिळी चपाती दिली जाते. तो टॉयलेटमध्ये चिंतन करतो याचा अर्थ असा होतो की तो जगापासून, विशेषत: त्याच्या मुलांपासून अलिप्त आहे. शिवाय, त्याची मुले त्याच्याबद्दल काळजी नसल्याने कधीही त्यांच्या भावना सामायिक करत नाहीत. म्हणून, तो झोपताना स्थिर रेडिओ ऐकतो. स्वत:ला आधुनिक भटके मानून, तो त्याच्या पूर्वजांची आणि नातवंडांची स्वप्ने पाहतो.

कवी उपमा, अनुप्रवर्तन आणि ओनोमॅटोपोईया सारख्या काव्यात्मक उपकरणांचा वापर करतो.

उपनगरीय मध्यमवर्गीय बापाचे जीवन दयनीय असल्याचे कवितेतून स्पष्ट होते.

एक उपनगरीय प्रवासी, जो एक पिता देखील आहे, या कवितेतून वेदनादायक एकटेपणा अनुभवतो.