Heir Conditioning by M SHANmughalingam

1. By :- M SHANmughalingam

2. Stanza 1
Grand dad did you breathe
before air cons were invented
was it hard staying
alive without modern inventions?
Grandma waren’t you flustered
as you fluttered with paper fans?
Could you communicate before
faxes and long distance calls
Became basic neccessities?

3. Stanza 2
Grandchild we lived
before your age. Because
of our ignorance,
we did not know
pollution, stress, traffic jams
destruction of forest, streams and hills
we feared God and nature
now nature fears you and
money is your new God.

4. Setting
Themes
Persona
Not specifically given
First stanza : a child,
Second stanza : a grandparent
Modernization comes with a
price, materialism, differences
in lifestyfrom past to present
Elements of Heir Conditioning

5. 2 stanza of free verse
literary devices, contrast,
onomatopoeia
Moral
Values
Tone and
Mood
Structur,
Style and
Language
concened, inquistive,
reverence
apperciate nature, respect
the elderly

6. Understanding the Poem
EXERCISE 1
A) Fill in the blanks with words from the box to
understand the poem.
The poem is abot a child asking his grandparents about
how they (1) _________ when they were young. He does
not understand how his grandparents could have lived
without (2) _________ inventions like air-conditioners, fax
machines and (3) _________. Hr feels that without these
modern inventions, life would have been (4) ________ and
inconvenient for them.
lived respect free forsake modern
difficult carefree knowledge telephones
destruction

7. The grandparents however tell him that because
they had no (5) ________ of modern inventions, they
were blessed in several ways. They were actually (6)
_______ from pollution and stress. Traffic jams and
the (7) ______ of nature were minimal. In other
words, their lives were simple and (8) _______. The
grandparents point out this is because in the past,
man had (9) _______ for God and nature.
Now, man’s priorities have changed. His greed for
money has caused him to (10) __________ God and
destroy nature.

8. Answers….
1) lived 2) modern
3) telephones 4) difficult
5) knowledge 6) free
7) destruction 8) carefree
9) respect 10) forsake
-THE END-
By, SHAMALAH a/p K.DEVAMANOHARAN
16/09/2015
12:04PM
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