powerpoint presentation - even past fifty by shanta shelke
TRANSCRIPT
Name: Sabari Chandran Optional: English
Reg No:16514369011 KTCT College of Teacher
Education, Kaduvayil
Power Point Presentation-
POET : SHANTA SHELKE
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.
She’s past fifty;
for whom the house is a doll’s house;
and running the household
She has travelled a long road;
but her little feet are not yet fatigued.
Catastrophes to her are still like the evil spirits in children’s stories
whom she fights with blades of grass;
wipes the sweat from her brow;
hits hard; sometimes wins, sometimes loses, her sword broken.
Difficult questions she had simplified for herself;
fitted the tangle into a simple frame; on her face she has made a distaste smile,
like moonlight that makes everything smooth.
But sometimes totally in despair,
a flower crumpled in a fist,
she rises again , smiles ,or sings to herself,
sings to herself, though hers is not a musical voice.
I saw her the other day after a long time; she talked with her usual, irrepressible intensity;
but I , for the first time, noted the hair fast becoming white,
noted for the first time, and with a
the hollowness of the froth rising above the stream of her life.
VOCABULARY
Catastrophes = great disaster
Tangle= knit together confusedly