Powerpoint presentation - Even Past Fifty by Shanta Shelke

Name: Sabari Chandran Optional: English

Reg No:16514369011 KTCT College of Teacher

Education, Kaduvayil

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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