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Father Returning Home - Analysis

Theme: The poem, Father Returning Home focuses on the theme of alienation or estrangement experienced by the aged in their twilight years. Dilip Chitre talks about his own father and through the poem, we get to know the alienation, isolation and misery experienced by elderly people, especially in cities. Style: Dilip Chitre’s poetry follows the tradition of dramatic monologue. In the poem Father Returning Home, the poet talks about his father’s loneliness and alienation from the man-made world. He has brought out the emotions of his father, who is isolated from his family as well as from the outside world. He has painted the mundane and fatiguing routine of his father in order to highlight the darkness and misery lurking inside his father’s soul. Imagery in the poem: The poet uses some fine imagery to describe the lurking loneliness in the man’s soul as he travels in the local train. To convey the ‘twilight atmosphere’ the poet has used a number of descriptive w...

Father Returning Home - Summary

Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics of the post Independence India. Apart from a being a writer, he was also a painter and a filmmaker. He graduated from the University of Bombay in 1959. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1994) for his Marathi book of poems Ekun Kavita. Father Returning Home is a short and appealing poem about an old man in a cosmopolitan city where his own sons and daughters treat him as an alien. He himself is estranged from the man-made world. Through this poem, Chitre has denounced the urban rootlessness and alienation. Stanza 1: The first stanza of Father Returning Home describes the train journey of his father while returning home one evening. The father stands among commuters in the yellow light of a local compartment. The poet describes his father’s reaction against the sights of the suburbs that pass by. His father remains unmoved by the sights because they are too familiar to him. That is quite normal, isn...

The Drover's Wife - Summary and Analysis

In the short story “The Drover’s Wife,” Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women whose bravery and perseverance is unfairly overlooked. It is often the men who receive all the glory while the women suffer silently in the background. In this story, Lawson sheds light on the life of one of these heroic women as she struggles to keep her children safe in the Australian bush. The vivid imagery of the environment creates feelings of isolation and monotony that the main character experiences in her day to day life. Instead of focusing on the contents of the bush, Lawson focuses primarily on what is lacking. The bush has “no horizon”, “no ranges in the distance” and “no undergrowth”. The scarcity of scenery shows the reader a glimpse of the bleakness and emptiness in the bushwoman’s life. There is more of this dreary imagery in the description of the house where the wife and her children live. It is crudely made out of slabs of “stringybark” and “round timber”. The kitc...

A Real Durwan - Overview

A Real Durwan http://prezi.com/aerk930gw42o/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share http://prezi.com/aerk930gw42o/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Reader's Review The short story " A Real Durwan" contained details and symbols that lead to a deeper meaning. It had the overall theme of social class and resentment. This story showed the true nature of humans at its worst. This short story held many different symbolic meanings. One was the water basin bought by Mr. and Mrs. Dalal. When they bought it, their neighbors were filled with jealousy. They thought the Dalals were trying to show off their prosperity. This basin connects back to the Indian cast system. It showed the different wealth levels of the people. In this case, the Dalals were the richest, the neighbors were the average class, and Boori Ma was an untouchable. She is considered an untouchable, since they threw her out onto the street, towards the end of the nov...

Colours Of Contrast - Sergius And Bluntschli

The characters in Shaw's play Arms and The Man are really arranged in parallel to highlight their distinctive features. The central theme of the play is the different attitudes to war and love. While some of the characters are rallying for romantic, sentimental notions, some are pragmatic and anti- romantic. In the true sense of the term Sergius and Bluntschli are studies in contrast and they constitute the central pair of the plot. They are both soldiers and lovers but their attitudes are pales apart. While Sergius is a self - conscious egotist and a dreamer of dreams, Bluntschli is a plain prudent man of the world with a strong common sense. While Sergius regards himself as a hero of romance and bears a romantic attitude to love and war,Bluntschli is replete with practical intelligence and has contempt for romantic poses and idealistic views of things like war, heroism, love and marriage. Sergius is basicall...

Arms And The Man Charecter Analysis - Captain Bluntschli

Shaw conceived of Bluntschli almost as a Hegelian character, in the sense that through him he has presented an antithesis of the conventional morality, romantic ideas of love and war and feudal notions of the place of the individual in society. Shaw does all this, however, under a dramatic scheme. The very name ‘Blunt(sch)li’ itself is perhaps deliberately chosen to cover up the potentialities of the man, with which he threatens the fragile facade of the complacent society. Through his character, however, Shaw attacks not only the ethos, romantic ideas and feudal concepts, he also inverts the tradition of the nature and role of the hero in comedy. But it should not be thought that Shaw presented Bluntschli with the sole object of satirising, which is a destructive art; in fact, he presents his unheroic hero from a system of thought that seeks a better society, where the individual’s status will not been determined and fixed by class and gender, but by what s/he is capable of contri...