Question

His eyes dimmed by age
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him geting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
He hurries across the length of the grey platform,
Crosses the railway line, enters the lane
(a) Name the poet and the poem
(b) Which line in the poem describes father's irrelevance to the train?
(c) Write two reasons for father's eyes being dimmed.
(d) Name the figure of speech used in the fourth line.
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b. Give the central idea of the poem 'On Friendship or The Road Not Taken​

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Father Returning Home: about the poem

Father Returning Home by Dilip Chitre is probably the most famous poem by this Indian poet. It is an autobiographical poem where the poet shows the loneliness and world-weariness of an old man in the modern society by depicting a picture of his own father returning home from work.

The poem is a true account of the poet’s father Purushottam Chitre’s life in 1957 when they moved from Baroda to Mumbai. The poem is expressive of the poet’s feeling for his father at a later stage. He realized how neglected and uncared-for his father was, even after being the lone bread-earner for the family.