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Name: Sabari Chandran Optional: English

Reg No:16514369011 KTCT College of Teacher

Education, Kaduvayil

Power Point Presentation-

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POET : SHANTA SHELKE

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EVEN PAST FIFTYIts a poem about a woman who is in

her early fiftiesThe poetess presenting the plight of

women in this societyShe is presenting the picture of a

woman who is engaged in household works without thinking about herself

The poetess generalise the situation of women in the society.

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She’s past fifty;

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for whom the house is a doll’s house;

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and running the household

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She has travelled a long road;

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but her little feet are not yet fatigued.

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Catastrophes to her are still like the evil spirits in children’s stories

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whom she fights with blades of grass;

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wipes the sweat from her brow;

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hits hard; sometimes wins, sometimes loses, her sword broken.

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Difficult questions she had simplified for herself;

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fitted the tangle into a simple frame; on her face she has made a distaste smile,

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like moonlight that makes everything smooth.

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But sometimes totally in despair,

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a flower crumpled in a fist,

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she rises again , smiles ,or sings to herself,

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sings to herself, though hers is not a musical voice.

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I saw her the other day after a long time; she talked with her usual, irrepressible intensity;

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but I , for the first time, noted the hair fast becoming white,

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noted for the first time, and with a

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the hollowness of the froth rising above the stream of her life.

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VOCABULARY

Catastrophes = great disaster

Tangle= knit together confusedly

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