EVEN PAST FIFTY

POWER POINT PRESENTATION BY

PANCHAMI S J

S N T C NEDUNGANDA

UNIT II

BREAKING BARRIERS

EVEN PAST FIFTY BY SHANTA SHELKE

Born 19 th October 1922 in punne A Marathi poet,a professor Journalist,a composer, Story writer, translator,columnist Writer of Child literature Novels:odh,Dharma,Punarjanma Song collections:Varsha,Godan,Rupasi Died: 6 th june2002

PROFILE OF SHANTA SHELKE

She’s past fifty;Yet she’s stillA little girl at heart,For whom the house is a doll’s house,And running the householdA childhood game.

She has travelled a long road ;but herLittle feetAre not yet fatigued.Catastrophes to herAre still like the evil spiritsIn children’s storiesWhom she fight with bladesOf grass;wipes the sweatFrom her brow;hits hard;Sometimes wins,sometimes loses,Her sword broken

EVEN PAST FIFTY

Difficult questionShe has simplified for herself;Fitted the tangleIn to a simple frame;On her faceShe has made distaste smile,Like moonlight that makes everything smooth.But sometimes totally in despair,Rises again,smiles,or 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 fats becoming white ,Noted, for the first time, and with pang,The hollowness of the frothRising above the stream of her life SHANTA SHELKE

Fatigued: very tired Catastrophe: a sudden event that causes many

people to suffer. Tangle: a twisted mass of threads, hair etc.

cannot be easily separated. Despair: the feeling of having lost all hope Irrepressible: happy and full of enery Pang: a sudden strong feeling of physical or

emotional pain Froth: a mass of small bubbles especially on

the surface of a liquid

Vocabulary

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’

“catastrophes to her are still like the evil spirits In children’s stories”

“she has made distaste smile, like moonlight that makes everything smooth”

SIMILE

A figure of speech that compares two unlike thins with out using ‘like ‘ or ‘as’.

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

IMAGERYA mental picture that appeal to the senses. It can both

be figurative and literal.A little girl at heart, For whom the house is a doll’s

house, one who has travelled a long road yet fatigued,one who fight with blades of grass etc...

METAPHOR

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