heir conditioning.pptx

7/29/2019 HEIR CONDITIONING.pptx

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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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