4. The house of my childhood ways with words first year 2021-2022 PDF

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THE HOUSE OF MY CHILDHOOD Dilip Chitre Short Answers: 1. The speaker says that all the furniture in the old house has gone except his grandmother’s grindstone and some brass figurines of gods. 2. The line taken from The house of my childhood states that there is no one and nothing remaining. The silence pervades everywhere which is eloquent of a rich past. 3. The color ‘grey’ symbolizes the desolation. 4. The cracks are colourless because it is just before the dawn of the sun and there is no light. 5. The seasons of spring and summer points to bright and youthful time of life. It also shows the passage of time. 6. Toddling is to walk very slowly. The poet is in his old age and while he is walks around the rooms he is toddling through his nostalgic memories. Paragraph Answers: 1. The poem “The House of my Childhood” is an autobiographical poem and nostalgic in nature. The poet brings in a vivid picture of his ancestral home. The speaker of the poem had spent his childhood days in that home but now it is desolate. He tries to recall the past memories imprinted on his mind. The poet now being older visited the empty house. He sees the old grindstone of his grandmother and a few brass figurines that no one took possession. He walks around the house and inside the rooms and gathered the memories of old moments. While standing there he is able to hear the voice of his grandmother. The poet is flooded with nostalgia. 2. The poem “The House of my Childhood” is filled with nostalgia and brings back to our mind a vivid picture of an ancestral home with all its properties. In the earlier days, when there was not much gadgets in the kitchen, people used to do grind grains in the grindstone. Although it required a lot of physical labour, those days are always tinted with happiness in our minds. The people especially ‘the woman of the house’ was busy in her household works from morning to night. During their busy schedule they also found enough time for prayers in front of the brass figurines. Now in the modern days, people have all sorts of tools and devices to make their labour easy but are in short of time. 3. The poem "The house of my childhood" describes about the previous house of the poet in which he spent the whole of his childhood. They left this house after the death of his grandmother. Now when he sees the house he finds the destruction in it. There is no furniture as all the furniture was removed. All that remained were a grinding stone and the brass statues of Gods that the grandmother worshipped. It appeared to the poet that even the birds had stopped singing. He recalled how the sky was filled with bird cries. The poet felt as if he could hear his grandmother’s voice coming from the branch of a tree. With both summer and spring gone, the house had a deserted look. The poet went around the house exploring it from all sides.

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The poem “The House of my Childhood” by Dilip Chitre is an autobiographical poem and reminiscent in nature. The poet brings in a vivid picture of his ancestral home. The speaker of the poem had spent his childhood days in that home but now it is desolate. He tries to recall the past memories imprinted on his mind. The poet visited the empty house. He sees the old grindstone of his grandmother and a few brass figurines that no one took possession. He walks around the house and inside the rooms and gathered the memories of old moments. The poet is flooded with a feeling of nostalgia.

The poem portrays the house of his childhood which stands empty on a grey hill. The ‘grey’ symbolizes the desolation. All the valuable things of the house have been taken off and only the grandmother’s grindstone and her brass figurines are left over. The grandmother was a devout woman traditional in character. She was engaged in the household works the whole day and also found time to pray. The entire place seems to be changed with modernity but the poet could still remember the voices of the people and the songs of the birds. He feels he could still hear his grandmother’s voice on the bare tree. While standing there he thinks about the change time has brought in. Many a summer and spring have come and gone. He turns into a melancholic mood where his silence becomes eloquence. The poet is now a grown up man but he becomes like a child toddling around the empty house.

The poem depicts ancestral house of the poet in which he spent the whole of his childhood. The house is desolate after the death of his grandmother. The grandmother and the house can be considered as the fulcrum of the family which reunites the scattered members at some or other time. But now the grandmother is dead and the poet shows a situation where family bonds are uprooted and disintegrating to a condition of none for none....