{"id":37099,"date":"2023-03-21T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apboardsolutions.com\/?p=37099"},"modified":"2023-03-21T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:17:01","slug":"ts-9th-class-english-guide-unit-8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apboardsolutions.com\/ts-9th-class-english-guide-unit-8b\/","title":{"rendered":"TS 9th Class English Guide Unit 8B Father Returning Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

TS Board Telangana SCERT\u00a0Class 9 English Solutions<\/a> Unit 8B Father Returning Home Textbook Questions and Answers.<\/p>\n

TS 9th Class English Guide Unit 8B Father Returning Home<\/h2>\n

My father travels on the late evening train
\nStanding among silent commuters in the yellow light
\nsuburbs slid past his unseeing eyes
\nHis shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat
\nStained with mud and his bag stuffed with books
\nIs falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age
\nfade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
\nNow I can see him getting off the train<\/p>\n

Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
\nHe hurries across the length of the grey platform,
\nCrosses the railway line, enters the lane,
\nHis chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward.<\/p>\n

Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,
\nEating a stale chapati, reading a book.
\nHe goes into the toilet to contemplate
\nMan\u2019s estrangement from a man-made world.
\nComing out he trembles at the sink,
\nThe cold water running over his brown hands,
\nA few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists.
\nHis sullen children have often refused to share
\nJokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep
\nListening to the static on the radio, dreaming
\nOf his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking
\nOf nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass.<\/p>\n

\"TS<\/p>\n

Questions and Answers:<\/span><\/p>\n

Answer the following questions.<\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nIs the father comfortable on the train?
\nAnswer:
\nThe father is not comfortable on the train.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nWhat does \u2018the dress of the father\u2019 Indicate?
\nAnswer:
\nThe dress of the father indicates the state of mind of the old man. He is dull and tired. The dress also shows his insignificance in this world.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\n\u2018A word dropped from a long sentence\u2019. What does It refer to?
\nAnswer:
\nIt refers to visual picture of an old man dropping off from the train as though he is no longer relevant to the train which will now move forward with other people to their destinations. The old man is just a word in the syntax of life. The sentence that is long enough to carry several words forward each contributing to its overall meaning now drops off one stray word, which is no longer required.<\/p>\n

\"TS<\/p>\n

Question 4.
\nHow can you say that the father Is In a hurry to go home?
\nAnswer:
\nHe is very much concerned about his family. He is eager to meet them after day\u2019s work. So he is in a hurry to go home though his chappals are sticky with mud.<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\nWhat might be the contemplation of the father in the toilet?
\nAnswer:
\nHe might be contemplating on the man\u2019s estrangement from a man-made world in the toilet.<\/p>\n

Question 6.
\nWhat image do you get from the line, \u2018A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nSince the father is old he has no significance in the family. Just like the droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists he clings to the family.<\/p>\n

Question 7.
\nWhy is the father thinking of nomads?
\nAnswer:
\nThe father is totally alienated from the family. He is trying to think about his ancestors who had entered the sub-continent through the Khyber.<\/p>\n

\"TS<\/p>\n

Father Returning Home Summary in English<\/h3>\n

The poem speaks about the inner loneliness of the poet\u2019s father. He is experiencing alienation in the twilight years. His children do not take care of him. They don\u2019t share anything with him. All the while he is trying to think about his ancestors who had entered the sub-continent through the Khyber Pass in the Himalayas in some distant past. The poet uses some fine imagery to describe the pain and misery lurking in the old man\u2019s soul as he travels in the local train. His bag stuffed with books is falling apart. It indicates the state of the old man\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

At the outset the poet describes his father coming home in an evening train. Father is silent and is unmoved by the sights of the suburbs because they are too familiar to him to catch his eye. His clothes are damp and dirty, his bag is disintegrating with the heavy load of books. Being old, he has lost the brightness of his eyes. The poet visualizes him getting out of the train and hastening along the platform. The old man is just a word in the syntax of life. The sentence that is long enough to carry several words forward each contributing to its overall meaning now drops off one stray word, which is no longer required.<\/p>\n

At home, the alienation is not lessened. He is written off by his children. Even his tea is weak and the chapati he eats is stale. His children are gloomy and do not interact with him. He has to be content with listening to the \u201cstatic\u201d on the radio. His life having lost its charm, music fails to interest him. Yet his dreams are on a grander scale. They revolve round his ancestors and grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\"TS<\/p>\n

About the Poet:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 -10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilin\u00acgual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a painter and filmmaker. His Ekun Kavita or Collected Poems were published in the nineteen nineties in three volumes. As Is, Where Is selected English po\u00acems (1964- 2007) and \u201cShesha\u201d English translation of selected Marathi poems both published by Poetrywala are among his last books published in 2007.<\/p>\n

He is also an accomplished translator and has prolifically translated prose and poetry. He started his professional film career in 1969 and has since made one feature film, about a dozen documentary films, several short films in the cinema format, and about twenty video documentary features. He also scored the music for some of them.<\/p>\n

Glossary:<\/span><\/p>\n

commuters (n) : passengers
\nsoggy (adj) : wet and soft
\nstale (adj) : no longer fresh
\ncontemplate (v) : think seriously
\nestrangement (n) : separation
\nsullen (adj) : silent and bad-tempered
\nstatic (n) : (here) noise that disturbs the signals of radio
\nnomads (n) : members of a tribe moving with their animals from place to place
\nsubcontinent (n) : (here) India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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