Shanta Janardan Shelke was a Marathi poet and writer born in 1922 who died in 2002. She wrote poems dealing with the problems faced by Indian women. Some of her poems became immortalized as songs sung by famous Marathi singers. The poem excerpt describes how she is able to simplify difficult questions and difficulties in her life into a simple frame, and how though she has a non-musical voice, she still rises again and sings to herself. It contains a simile comparing her ability to make distaste smile to how moonlight makes everything smooth, and a metaphor describing her being in total despair as a flower crumpled in her fist.

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3. Shanta Janardan Shelke (born 19 October 1922; died 6 June 2002) was
a Marathi poet and writer.She was a journalist, a professor, a composer, a story writer,
a translator, a writer of child literature, someone who presided over literary gatherings,
and more. Her poems deals with the problems that Indian women face.Some of her
compositions became immortal either as stand-alone poetic works or as songs sung
by Marathi greats like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosale and Kishori Amonkar, to name
a few.

4. Even past fifty

5. Stanza III
Difficult questions
she has simplified for herself;
fitted the tangle
Into a simple frame;
on her face
she has made distaste smile,
like moonlight that makes everything smooth.
But sometimes totally in despair,
a flower crumpled in a fist, she
rises again, smiles , or sings to herself,
thought hers is not a musical voice.

6. Word Meaning
Simplified made simple.
Tangle difficulties in life(here).
Frame main structure that gives it its shape.
Distaste dislike.
Despair(n & v) the state of having lost all hope.
Crumpled pressed to wrinkle.
Fist tightly closed hand.

7. Simile
A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to
another.

8. Question no:1
Find out the r d s imile in III stanza

9. simile
She has made distaste smile,
like moonlight that makes everything smooth

10. Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to
represent or stand for something else

11. Question no :2
Find out the metaphor in stanza III

12. A flower crumpled in a fist

13. Question no: 3
The poet compared the distaste smile to…..?

14. Answer…..
The poet compared the
distaste smile to the moonlight

15. Assignment
Find out the other names of poetic devices used in
poems

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