Write an summary on the poem television by roald dahl
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Roald Dahl is one of the most prolific modern writers in English and is well known as a children’s author. The poem ‘Television’ is a famous poem of Dahl that advises and inspires to read books instead of watching the television. This is one of the most relevant poems of our time. The poem takes a comic look at a serious problem among young children today. It warns us about the dangers of watching television excessively. TV robs our minds of the power of imagination and creativity.
He advises us to read books as it will enable us to discover deeper levels of joy, find fulfillment in life and open a whole new and exciting world for us.
The poem is a long one but very simple in language and form. It follows rhymed Iambic tetrameter lines throughout the poem with no stanza division. The poet has capitalized the important portions – especially where he talks about the undesired consequences of watching television.
The poem 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 poem 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 his 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 the 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 fight with the parents to throw away their television but at the end they will be benefitting out of it and a day will come when they acknowledge and thanks the parents for doing so.