1. The poem describes a male and female pair of Sarus cranes stretching their necks towards the horizon. A hunter shoots and kills the male bird. 2. The female circles overhead, crying out in grief, as the hunter disgracefully collects the dead male's body. 3. She returns to find a few bloodstained feathers, which she gathers and sits upon as if trying to hatch them, forgetting food and drink in her intense sorrow. 4. Overcome by either an actual wave of the sea or a wave of her own grief, she is carried away from the place, pairing with her mate even in death beyond what was thought possible for birds.

1. B.J.P’S SAMITIS ,M.V.HERWARDKAR ENGLISH
MEDIUM HIGH SCHOOL
BELGAVI STD :Xth SUB: ENGLISH
TOPIC : TO A PAIR OF SARUS CRANE
PPT BY : MANJUSHA .K

2. SARUS CRANES

3. The male was shot as he necked to pull the reluctant
sun out from the rim of horizon.
 She flew crying 5 as he was picked up hands and
jaws and a proud bag.
She circled the skneck was humbled to lie like
dirty linen in a coarse washing y 10 in movements of
grace over his disgraceful end. The killers went away
and she returned to the death’s scene
with grief that inscribed its intensity 15 in dots and
pits like the Morse code of bird’s sorrow transmitted
to the air.

4. With her beak she kissed a few feathers picked
the ones that wind had not taken away 20 and
sat to hatch the blood stained feathers into a
toddling chick.
A wave of the seas she had never seen
came to her from far away and carried her
from far away.

5. 1.The Sarus cranes are flying towards the horizon with their
necks stretched when a hunter shoots at the male crane and
kills it.
2.The female crane circles the sky in movements of grace,
crying as ‘the hunter picks up the dead bird disgracefully and
goes away.
3.She comes down to the place where the male bird had fallen
down and picks up a few blood-stained fe.athers.
4.Forgetting food and drink, she sits upon the feathers as if
trying to hatch a chick.
5.It could be an actual wave of the sea or a wave of sorrow
which she hadn’t known as long as the male was alive, that
comes near her and washes her away.

6. 1.It could be an actual wave of the sea or a
wave of sorrow which she hadn’t known
as long as the male was alive, that comes
near her and washes her away.
2.how birds can be more loyal and noble
Ornithologist Hume had said that Sarus
cranes pair for life. Here the female crane
goes beyond his words, and pairs in the
other world too.
3.Poem shows r than man.

8.  This poem gives us a wonderful, touching account of the love of
Sarus cranes. It can be considered an ode to this pair of Sarus
cranes because odes celebrate the laudatory qualities of their
subjects/The poet gives us a picture of birds where they appear
nobler than human beings because their love extends beyond
death.
 The poem begins with a picture of the main Sarus crane stretching
its neck as if to pluck the sun out from the rim of the horizon. The
bold initiative of the bird is revealed as it is trying to do the
impossible. It is at this wonderful moment that a hunter does the
shameful act of shooting down the male bird.

9. Birds in happy mood embracing each
other

10.  The word ‘necked’ in the first stanza can also be understood as the
two birds embracing each other when the hunter breaks their
union by shooting at the male bird. Seen either way, it is a very
disgraceful end to a very graceful bird. The female bird
immediately starts shrieking and circling the sky, without leaving
the place.
 After the hunter callously picks up the dead bird, throws it
carelessly into his washing bag and goes away, the female bird
comes down and searches all around the place for the male bird.
She goes on crying all the time, expressing her sorrow to all those
who could understand her. In her intense grief, she gathers some
blood-stained feathers and sits on them, as if to hatch a chick from
them.

12. Bird was shot dead by the hunters

13. Body was carried away in a linen cloth

14. Feathers of the dead sarus male crane

16.  As she sits on the feathers without food or drink, desperately trying to
give life to them, a wave from the seas which could be an actual wave
of the sea or an intense wave of sorrow, overcomes her and kills her.
Thus, the birds go beyond the ornithologist, Hume’s words: They pair
for life.
 The poem gives a good contrast of the natures of man and bird. The
man appears very cruel, mean and unfeeling whereas the birds
appear sensitive, loving and humble.

17. Sarus crane sitting on feathers as if to
hatch eggs

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