HEIR CONDITIONING

By M SHANmughalingam
 STANZA 1
Grand dad did you breathe
Before air cons were invented
Was it hard staying
Alive without modern inventions?
Grandma weren’t you flustered
As you fluttered with paper fans?
Could you communicate before
Faxes and long distance calls
Became basic necessities?
 MEANING
• 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
 STANZA 2
Grandchild we lived
Before your age. Because
Of our ignorance,
We did not know
Pollution, stress, traffic jams
Destruction of forests, streams and
Hills
We feared God and nature
Now nature fears you and
Money is your new God.
 MEANING
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
THEME
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
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
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