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HEIR CONDITIONING
M Shanmughalingam
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HEIR CONDITIONINGM Shanmughalingam
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Title
The title implies the transfer of a generation and
highlights the gap that existed and apparent in
societies today. This gap existed due to the
results of the conditioning effect that took place
in the name of development and modern times.
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Theme
Modernisation comes with a price.
Differences in time between two generations
Spirituality vs. Materialism Traditional vs. Modernisation
Wisdom vs. Ignorance
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Alliteration
Alliteration is used to reflect the sound of thewind from her grandmothers paper fans
The repetition of similar consonants at the
beginning of words put close to each other.
Example:
Consonant: /f/ Grandma werent you flustered
As you fluttered with paper fans?
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Rhyme Scheme
Contemporary. Followed no rhyme
scheme.
This poem is a good introduction forcontemporary poem.
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Pun
Pun is used as an irony as the usage of
air-conditioner is causing harm to the
nature as we enjoy the cool air.
Example:
Heir conditioning and air-conditioning
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HeirAn heir is a person who will legally receive money,
property or a title from another person, especiallyan older member of the same family, when that
other person dies; someone who now has theresponsibility for dealing with a problem or situation
that existed or was created earlier.
Condition/ Conditioning (INFLUENCE)
It is to train or influence a person or animal mentally
so that they do or expect a particular thing withoutthinking about it.
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Repetition
Words or ideas that are emphasized to show theimportance of a certain concept
Example:
Line 1- 9 : You
Line 10- 18: We
Line 18- 20: You & We.
Here the poet emphasize the word you,
focusing all attention to the grandparents. Also
signify blaming; you as pinpointing
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Style
The style use is simple but rich in contrast.
Example:
The lines in the poem are presented in a non
standard tradition of style.
The poem is presented in 9 lines in the first
stanza.
The second stanza contains 10 lines.
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Tone
This poem has a rather serious and
sarcastic tone. This is because the use
of all these technological appliancesthat are supposed to make our lives
more comfortable is actually
destroying the world we live in.
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IronyAn expression of meaning often humorous
or sarcastic, by the use of language of a
different or opposite tendency
Example:
In this poem, the poet highlights the
comforts of modernization (telephones, air-
conditioner and modern transportation),
and the consequences (stress, traffic jams
and pollution) they have brought on to us.
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Exercise time
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Picture A
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Picture B
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Write lines from the poem that have themeanings given in the table below.
Meanings Lines from the poem
1. Were you not disturbed by the heat
when you used paper fans to cool
yourself?
2. Were you able to talk to others who
lived far away?
3. Was it difficult to live without
handphones, fans, computers, washingmachines, cars and other inventions?
4. Did you really live and breathe in air
before air-conditioners were invented?
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1. Who is asking the questions in stanza one?__________________________________________________________________
2. Who is answering in stanza two?__________________________________________________________________
3. What are the minds of the younger generationconditioned to think?
__________________________________________________________________
4. Who are the heirs to the Earth and everything
on it?__________________________________________________________________5. Is the title of the poem suitable? Why?
__________________________________________________________________
Answers for the following questions.
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Answers
1. A child/ a teenager/ a young person/ the youngergeneration
2. The grandfather/ grandmother/grandparents/theolder generation
3. They have become conditioned to think that theycannot live without modern inventions and thatmoney is more important than nature and God.
4. Young people and future generations.
5. Yes. It is suitable as the poem is about young peopleor heirs of Earth whose minds have been conditionedby modernization and materialism.
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