Father returning home by Dilip Chitre

For the Literature class, we read the poem father returning home from Dilip Chitre, then after analysing its stanzas, themes and tones, we created a text explaining and showing them. Here is mine, hope you enjoy it!

The second stanza of the story shows us at the level of allienated the boy´s father is, as the sentence like a word dropped from a long sentence that shows us how miserable he is to the world, we get the impression that he is no longer relevant to the people daily travelling with him in the train, like one in a millon. We can see how strange he feels in his routine, he can´t find himself, he is allienated by his job, it consumes him. Long hours that have changed his eyes into unseeing, what goes around doesn´t matter to him. Then, we can see him arriving home, don´t having any touch (or even comunication or a simple greet) with his children, they are all on their own business, not like a family. They don´t seem to care about his father returning home, who left at early morning and came back at late night. After, he lonely drinks a weak tasteless tea and a stale chapatti, what gives us the impression that even his basics requirements (like love or having a warm dish on the table after work) are not fullfilled by his family, he is lost. He then reads some sort of philosophical book about men estrangement from a man-made world, what makes him reflect and feel miserable realysing he is a victim. He washes his hands, where the author makes special emphasis in his brown skin, trembling. He goes to his room, but as he doesn´t have his family´s company he turns on the radio, trying to replace the hole it leaves in his heart to be aparted in some kind of way to his family.

The theme of the poem is the allienation or the own strangement experienced by the main character in the poem, what would be the father of the author Dilip Chitre, and probably the life of many people at the time of the post independence India. This elderly man feels disconsolate and afflicted, he doesn´t only unfind himself at work, he does it at his OWN HOUSE, where he is ignored by his family, and where he eats alone and doesn´t talk. Like if his family and him wouldn´t have any connection, he is lost even with the people he loves, At work, he is just one more, at home one more, at the train one more, but at the end, he is nobody and that´s his dilemma. Invisble.

The tone of the poem is blue and in loneliness of  a son (Dilip Chitre) drawing a picture  about the loneliness his father goes through everyday and his feeling of being allienated and absolutely miserable to the world.