The wind ppt

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1. Poem - WIND By SUBRAMANIA BHARATI (TRANSLATED FROM TAMIL BY A.K.RAMANUJAN)

2. About the Poet : (11 December 1882 – 11 September 1921), Also known as Bharathiyar , he was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist , a social reformer and a polyglot. Popularly known as " Mahakavi Bharathi", he was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and is considered one of the greatest Tamil literary figures of all time.

3. Friendly images of wind:

4. Theme of the Poem : The poem “Wind” inspires us to face the challenges and hardship with courage, and firm determination. Wind is a symbol of problems and obstacles which are to be dealt without fear. We must be friends with the wind to cope with hardship. The poet suggests everyone to be strong enough both, mentally and physically, to face all the hardships of life with courage. Wind symbolizes problems and obstacles that we all face and go through at some point of time in our lives

5. Wind, come softly. Don’t break the shutters of the windows. Don’t scatter the papers. Don’t throw down the books on the shelf. There, look what you did — you threw them all down. You tore the pages of the books. You brought rain again. You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts — the wind god winnows and crushes them all. He won’t do what you tell him. So, come, let’s build strong homes, Let’s joint the doors firmly. Practise to firm the body. Make the heart steadfast. Do this, and the wind will be friends with us. The wind blows out weak fires. He makes strong fires roar and flourish. His friendship is good. We praise him every day. LET US READ THE POEM

6. GLOSSARY poking fun : making fun of rafters : sloping beams supporting a roof winnow : blow grain free of chaff; separate grain from husk by blowing on it

7. Explanation Wind, come softly. Don’t break the shutters of the windows. Don’t scatter the papers. Don’t throw down the books on the shelf. There, look what you did — you threw them all down. You tore the pages of the books. You brought rain again. The poet starts the poem by humbly requesting the wind not to break shutters of windows, scatter papers or even throw down books. He blames wind for doing all this destruction and for bringing rain to create double chaos. The wind did not even spare the pages of books which it tore.

8. Explanation You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts — the wind god winnows and crushes them all. He gives wind an evil quality as it makes fun of weak things and even weak people who cannot stand it. The god of the wind winnows everything down like husk when it starts on its way , crushing everything in its path.

9. Explanation He won’t do what you tell him. So, come, let’s build strong homes, Let’s joint the doors firmly. Practise to firm the body. Make the heart steadfast. Do this, and the wind will be friends with us. The wind blows out weak fires. He makes strong fires roar and flourish. His friendship is good. We praise him every day. Instead of wind , poet now addresses the people . He asks them to rebuild again . This time they have to construct not only strong homes and doors but also, strong lives which can withstand the force of wind. Only when we will be strong , wind will befriend us . As we know strong wires are strengthened by wind . Similarly , friendship can exist between equals. His friendship is good and thus , we should praise it everyday and thank it.

10. POETIC DEVICES PERSONIFICATION – wind has been personified as poet addresses it as “you” REPETITION – “crumbling” word is repeated SYMBOLISM – wind is symbolic for the challenges/adversities in life ALLITERATION – “wind winnows”