Expalnation of Father Returning Home - 2129 Words

dad return 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. He goes into the toilet to contemplate Man’s estrangement from a man-made world. Coming out he†¦show more content†¦There he receives only noised receiving, not even a good program from the radio. In short the father has no joy in his life; there is no closeness between the father and the children. The only thing that changes the mood of the poem is when he thinks about his dead yesterdays (ancestors) and unborn tomorrows (grand-children and nomads) -Here one thing must be noted that he dreams about these people not about his own children. Patel wanted to convey the idea of unseen sincerity of millions of fathers who strive hard for their family and their people. Dilip Chitres poem Father Returning Home is selected from Travelling in A Cage. It speaks about the dull and exhausting daily routine of a commuter. Delinked from his family he is left with himself to talk. Dreaming about his ancestors and grand children he communicates with the dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows. His alienation is complete and irreversible. Sleep and dream come as sweet relief from a world that is alien to him. The theme of the poem is Mans estrangement from a man-made world. Dilip Purushottam Chitre (Marathi: à ¤ ¦Ã  ¤ ¿Ã  ¤ ²Ã  ¥â‚¬Ã  ¤ ª à ¤ ªÃ  ¥ Ã  ¤ °Ã  ¥ Ã  ¤ ·Ã  ¥â€¹Ã  ¤ ¤Ã  ¥ Ã  ¤ ¤Ã  ¤ ® à ¤Å¡Ã  ¤ ¿Ã  ¤ ¤Ã  ¥ Ã  ¤ °Ã  ¥â€¡) was one of the foremost Indian writers 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 painter and filmmaker. Biography He was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938. His father Purushottam Chitre used to publish a periodical named