Preface of the poem Television
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Explanation:
The poet talks about the importance of books in the lives of the children and most importantly, how this passion for books has been substituted with the addiction for television.
The poet makes the television set like an evil which hinders the growth of brains for the children and hampers their creativity. Next, the poet highlights the vitality of books which are, however, ignored because of this television.
The author, at the end, requests the parents to do away with the television sets from their homes and instead place a nice book shelf at its place and fill it with good books. This will aid the children build their knowledge, creativity and at the end, will make them successful. No matter, now, the children might rebel at this change and even argues and fights with the parents to throw away their favorite television, but at the end, they will be benefitting out of it. And a day will come, when they will acknowledge and thank the parents for doing so.The children should focus on reading the melodious rhymes and other story books. Earlier there used to books everywhere, on the book shelves, in the study room, bed room, lying on the bed and floor…everywhere. The poet states the famous of the now amongst children of different ages, and how the children of old times used to be engrossed with these stories and other books. That good old times of books were so great, the poet cherishes his past and now requests the parents of present days to thrown away the television sets and instead get those old book shelves and lovely books back to its place. Children should have a lovely book shelve hanging on the wall, which will increase the beauty of the wall. And then only the shelf is not enough, it should be filled will books and many books. This action by the parents will not be liked by the children at first and the children might oppose to this by different actions like screaming, shouting and even worse. But the parents should not be afraid from this revolutionary action of the children. Things will settle down on its own in some time.
When there will be no TV, and nothing else to do, children will of course need some thing for entertainment, and then will come the time when they will grab a book and start to read the same.
And once they will start operating the books, the real joy will come then. They themselves will understand the joy of reading and soon will gain interest. These books will make its own place in the hearts if the children and they will become fond of reading. That will be the day when they will realize that they had been wasting a lot of their precious time in watching the television. They will understand the worth of the books and how worthless was watching the television. The children will soon realize that you did wonderful thing for them by throwing away the television and instead installing the lovely books to entertain and teach them so much. The children will love you (parents) all the more for throwing away the television and bringing them near to the books.