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Father to Son Summary class 11 English - My View

Father to Son - Hornbill
- Class XI English Core
- NCERT

By- Elizabeth Joan Jennings

Father to Son - Hornbill - Class XI English Core - NCERT
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Elizabeth Joan Jennings was an
English poet. She was born on
July 18, 1926, Boston,Lincolnshire, England. When she was six, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life. There she later attended St Anne's College. After graduation, she became a  prominent writer. Jennings' early poetry was published in journals such as Oxford Poetry, New English Weekly, The Spectator, Outposts and Poetry Review, but her first
book was not published until she
was 27. Her works relate intensely personal matters in a plainspoken, traditional and objective style. She died on October 26, 2001 in Bampton, Oxfordshire.

Stanza 1

I do not understand this child
Though we have lived together now
In the same house for years. I know
Nothing of him, so try to build
Up a relationship from how
He was when small.

Explanation:

Father and son relationship has described saying that they don't understand each other. Though they  have lived in the same house for years, father doesn't understand his son. He (father) knows nothing about his son. He wants to build the kind of  relationship as it was when his son was a small kid. These lines of the poem shows that there used be a very affectionate and loving relationship between father and son. But with the passage of time they went away from each other.

Explanation in Hindi:

  पिता पुत्र के  साथ सम्बंध को  दर्शाते हुए कहता है कि वे एक दूसरे को नहीं समझते है। यद्यपि वे बर्षो तक एक ही घर रहते रहते रहे है पिता अपने पुत्र को नहीं जानता है। वह अपने बेटे के बारे में कुछ  नहीं जानता है। अब पिता उसी तरह का सम्बंध बनाना चाहता है जैसा कभी बचपन के समय हुआ करता था। इन लाइन से समझ मे आता है कि एक समय उनके बीच में प्रेम और सौहार्द का रिश्ता था ।
Father to Son - Hornbill - Class XI English Core - NCERT
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Stanza 2
Yet have I killed
The seed
I spent or sown it where
The land is his and none of mine?
We speak like strangers, there's
no sign
Of understanding in the air.
This child is built to my design
Yet what he loves I cannot share

Explanation:

Father feels that he wanted  to fix ideas in the mind of his son. But he didn't get the desired results. So he feels that he has only destroyed or spoilt his seed (ideas). He could not shape his son's thoughts and ideas because it was not his land ( mind) where he tried to sow (infix) the seed. Father and son talk to each other like strangers. It seems as they don't even know each other. Though son looks like his father  both body and stature, his likes and dislikes are not the same. Father also doesn't like the ways and means of his son.

Explanation in Hindi:

पिता को लगता है कि एक समय उसने अपने पुत्र के मन में वे विचार डालने चाहे जो उसे पसंद थे । पुत्र शरीर से तो पिता की भांति ही दिखता है लेकिन जो उसे पसंद है वह पिता को अच्छा नहीं लगता । पिता को लगता है कि उसने जो बीज रूपी विचार अपने बेटे के मन मे बोने की कोशिश की , वो बीज ही खराब हो गया। क्योंकि वह जगह (मन) ही उसकी नहीं थी। पिता और पुत्र एक दूसरे के साथ अजनबी की भांति बात करते हैं। ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि पिता और पुत्र एक दूसरे को नही जानते। जो पुत्र को पसंद है वो पिता को अच्छा नहीं लगता है ।
Stanza 3
  Silence surrounds us. I would have
Him prodigal, returning to
His father's house, the home he
knew
Rather than see him make and
move
His world. I would forgive him too,
Shaping from sorrow a new love.

Explanation :

Father and son remain silent and hardly talk to each other. Father wants to bring back his son to that house which is familiar to him. He doesn't want that his son should go far and make his own world. He would let him 'prodigal' - wasteful - and bring him too. He also wants to forgive his son and would try to build a new relationships which will wipe out all sorrows and will develop love and affection. In this stanza a father's helplessness is clearly visible.

Explanation in Hindi

पिता और पुत्र को खामोशी घेरे रहती है पिता अपने पुत्र को फिजूलखर्च करने देने के लिए भी तैयार है। वह बेटे को माफ करके अपने घर बुलाना चाहता है। पिता नही चाहता कि पुत्र अपनी दुनिया अलग वसा ले और घर सदा के लिए छोड़ दे । पिता उसे क्षमा कर देना चाहता है । वह उसे उस घर में बुलाना चाहता है जिसे वह बर्षों से जानता है। इस stanza में पिता का असहाय पन साफ दिख रहा है । एक लाचार पिता सब कुछ भुला कर नई शुरुआत करना चाहता है।
Stanza 4
Father and son, we both must live
On the same globe and the same
land
He speaks: I cannot understand
Myself, why anger grows from
grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
Longing for something to forgive.

Explanation:

Father and son both must live on the same earth and in the same world. They cannot be separated with each other,  as they are closely bound . Son also knows the grief aroused by their bad relationship. He says he can't understand why anger caused by grief and sadness. This is very clear that son isn't also happy with that kind of relationship with his father. Father and son both want to forgive each other,  still not prepared to initiate at all. Each one is looking at the other . So both are with their empty hands.

Explanation in Hindi:

पिता और पुत्र दोनों को ही एक ही धरती और संसार मे रहना है। वे चाह कर भी एक दूसरे से अलग नहीं हो सकते । पुत्र भी उनके बिगड़े रिश्ते के दुख को जानता है। वह समझ नही पाता है कि  दुख  और उदासी से गुस्सा क्यों आता है दोनों ही एक दूसरे को माफ करना चाहते है लेकिन पहल कोई नई करना चाहता है ।

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