Meaning of Stanzas:

Stanza 1
In the first stanza, the poet asks his grandparents about the life before the technology arouse and become the
important usage in the world nowadays. He asks his grandfather was it complicated to live in the life without
technology as he refers the technology to the invention of the air cons. Then he asks his grandmother regarding the
condition when she used paper fans to cool herself. He also asks his grandmother what were the possibilities for
them to communicate without faxes and long distance calls compared to the world nowadays.

Stanza 2
The second stanza shows the answers given by the poet’s grandparents that sum up all the questions in one simple
answer. The reason on why they did not experience all the pollution, stress, traffic jams, and destruction of forests,
streams and hills is because of their ignorance; they were lack of knowledge by that time. His grandparents add, the
only thing that they fear is God and nature but now, the nature turns to fear the entire human race and money is the
only obsession to human.

Setting:
The poem is written in twentieth century setting as there are references to modern gadgets such as air cond and
faxes. The problems mentioned in the poem also allude to current problems faced by today's generation.

Persona:
There are two personas in the poem. They are the grandparents and the grandchild.

Themes:
1. Technology Brings More Harm
It may seem that we are living in comfort with all the technology that keeps on improving, but we do not realize the
harms that the technology has brought us. The grandchild thinks that it is impossible for their grandparents to live in
comfort with the help of technology. The child does not realize that because of the technology itself, the world
becomes hotter and that is the reason why some technologies are created to blind humans with the fake comfort that
the technologies bring them. For example, electric fans and air cons. Technological advancements have other
setbacks such us pollution, stress, traffic jams, and destruction of forests, rivers and hills.

2. Fear
The older generations were God-fearing people and respected His creation nature. However, today’s generation does
not fear God. On the contrary the poet says that “now nature fears you and money is your new God”. This indicates
that the younger generation has become more materialistic. They do not care for nature but gives priority to riches
and money rather than practicing good values such as preserving God’s creation.

3. Importance of Preserving Nature

God created nature to preserve life. In stanza 2, the poet gives the consequences of not preserving nature -pollution,
stress, traffic jams, destruction of forest, streams and hills. Humans seem not to aware that the more pollution they
make, the more they need to preserve the nature. In paving the way for development, forest and hills have been
destroyed and streams have been polluted. This has destroyed the natural habitat of many species of animals and
plants which help to retain balance in our ecosystem

Moral Values:
We must be grateful with what we have.
Do not take things for granted.
Progress brings advantages and disadvantages
The younger generation has different values.
We must pay a high price for development.