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Special English – 12th
Lessson – 11
My Father Travels
– Dilip Chitre
Poetry –
My Father travels on the 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
Is stained with mud , 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 and enters the lane
His chappals are sticky with mud , but he hurries on
Home again , I see him drinking week 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 the graying hair on his wrists.
His sullen children have often refused to share
Jokes and screts 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.
Extract -1 : –
My Father travels on the 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
Is stained with mud , his bag stuffed with books
Is falling apart .
Questions :
- What look does ‘yellow light’ reflect ? …………..
- ………………slide past his unseeing eyes.
- Find a word similar in meaning to ‘patched’.
- Where is the father’s bag of books?
Answers :
- Frightening look
- Suburbs
- Stained
- It falls apart.
Extract – 2 :-
His sullen children have often refused to share
Jokes and screts 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.
Questions :
- What position of the father does the first line refer to ?
- ………. Entering a subcontinent through a narrow
- Find a word opposite in meaning to ‘Successors’.
- What does the father finally do ?
Answers :
- Neglected
- Of nomads
- Ancestors
- The father finally goes to bed listening to the static radio and dreaming of his ancestors.
My Father Travels.
My Father Travels