 |
| The Author |
Written more as a prose in a poem format, this piece has a child questioning the grandparents about how they could possibly survived without modern comforts and conveniences.
As each era has its new knowledge database, innovations, inventions and discoveries, there is advancement. From the wheel to the motor-car engine and the airplane, there have been tremendous progress for mankind.
For the current era, the telephone, the fax machine and now the wundebar internet has open new vistas into the new uncharted world for man to reach out further and find insights he never knew existed on this earth, not to speak of remote interplanetary travel or the fictitious time machine.
The poet's' limited reference' to age-old inventions, innovation devices such as the fan, the telephone and the ubiquitous air-condition is considered dull on all counts by the Generation Y people with their ipod, i-pads and the much sought after tablets. Can they relate with such products or issues?
The questions asked by the child are most mundane. Hardly inspiring. Out of time.
The second stanza where the grandparents tried to explain away to the child about the lack of science and technology during their earlier life-time can also be viewed as possibly begrudging the modern generation.
To accept a mundane life devoid of technology comfort is understandable. To blame the younger generation for the ills of modernization is most unfair especially when capitalism and greedy governments rob the land blind for their own aggrandizement and glory. That is sadly replaced.
Anyway for a scholarly work, it has passed muster.
No comments:
Post a Comment