2.5 Father Returning Home –Figure of Speech-

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 2.5 Father Returning Home – Dilip Chitre

Figures of Speech-

In this poem following are important figures of speech-  Alliteration, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Paradox, Personification, Repetition, Simile, Transferred Epithet and Symbolism,

1) Alliteration-

1. My father travels on the late evening train

Ans- The consonant sound ‘t’ is repeated for poetic effect.

2. Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light

Ans- The consonant sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

3. Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes

Ans- The consonant sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

4. His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat 

Ans- The consonant sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

5. Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books 

Ans- The consonant sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

6. Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.

Ans- The consonant sound ‘h’ is repeated for poetic effect.

7. Like a word dropped from a long sentence.

Ans- The consonant sound ‘l’ is repeated for poetic effect.

8. Crosses the railway line, enters the lane, 

Ans- The consonant sound ‘l’ is repeated for poetic effect.

9. His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward.

 Ans- The consonant sound ‘h’ is repeated for poetic effect.

10. Man’s estrangement from a man-made world.

 Ans- The consonant sound ‘m’ is repeated for poetic effect.

11. The cold water running over his brown hands,

Ans- The consonant sound ‘h’ is repeated for poetic effect.

12. A few droplets cling to the greying hair on his wrists. 

Ans- The consonant sound ‘h’ is repeated for poetic effect.

13. His sullen children have often refused to share 

Ans- The consonant sound ‘s’ is repeated for poetic effect.

14. Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass.

 Ans- The consonant sound ‘n’ is repeated for poetic effect.

2) Transferred Epithet-

1. ‘Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night’

Ans- An epithet (Adjective) 'humid’ transferred from the weather to the night. The weather is humid not the night. 

2. Home again I see him drinking weak tea

Ans-An epithet (Adjective)  ‘week’ is transferred from person to tea.

3. Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes

Ans -An epithet (Adjective) 'unseeing'  is transferred from poet to eyes. 

4. He hurries across the length of the grey platform.

Ans- An epithet (Adjective) 'grey'  is transferred from the poet's old age to the platform.

3) Paradox-

 1. Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes

Ans- In this line ‘eyes’ are described as unseen and it is an unbelievable or absurd statement.

4) Metaphor-

     He hurries across the length of the grey platform

Ans- The ‘grey platform’ is indirectly compared with the ‘old age of poet’s father’.

5) Synecdoche

1. Home again I see him drinking weak tea eating a stale chapati reading a book.

Ans- Stale chapati stands for stale food. The part (chapati) symbolizes the whole i.e  'food'. 

 2. A few droplets cling to the greying hair on his wrists. 

Ans- 'Greying hair' represents the whole i.e. 'the old age of father'. 

6) Personification

1. The cold water running over he is brown hands.

Ans- The ‘water’ has given the human quality.

2. Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes

Ans- The 'suburbs' have given the human quality. 

7) Onomatopoeia

1. Listening to the static on the radio.

Ans- The word ‘static’ represents the sound.

8) Repetition-

1. his shirt and pants are soggy his black raincoat is stained with mud and his bag is stuffed with books.

Ans- The word ‘his’ is repeated three times for poetic effect.

2. Man's estrangement from a man-made world.

Ans- The word 'man' is repeated twice for poetic effect. 

9) Simile- 

Now I can see him getting off the train

Like a word dropped from a long sentence

Ans- The action of the father getting off the train is directly compared with a word dropped from a long sentence.

Special Features-

1. Symbolism of color -

1. Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light. 

Ans- Yellow- dull, monotonous life

2. He hurries across the length of the grey platform.

Ans-  Grey- suggests old age, dullness, and sordidness of a father's life. 

3. A few droplets cling to the greying hair on his wrists.

Ans- greying - suggests the old age. 

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Prepared by- Jyoti Walunj 



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