Father Returning Home - By Dilip Chitre| ISC Modern English |Poetry to remember

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Father Returning Home: Poetry to remember
Father Returning Home by Dilip Chitre is probably the most famous poem by this Indian poet. It is an autobiographical poem where the poet shows the loneliness and world-weariness of an old man in the modern society by depicting a picture of his own father returning home from work.

The poem is a true account of the poet’s father Purushottam Chitre’s life in 1957 when they moved from Baroda to Mumbai. The poem is expressive of the poet’s feeling for his father at a later stage. He realized how neglected and uncared-for his father was, even after being the lone bread-earner for the family.


But the poem ‘Father Returning Home’ has gone beyond its autobiographical significance. It is now an account of any old man who does the hard work for his family but leads a monotonous life where no one is there to take care of him, to converse with him or to understand his feelings.

The poem consists of two stanzas of 12 lines each. It is written in free verse with no particular meter or rhyme scheme followed. And the lack of rhythm is symbolic of the poet’s father’s uncared-for life. The language is easy and simple but full of symbolic expressions and poetic devices like simile. It is in first person narrative where the poet-speaker narrates how his father returns home and what he does thereafter.

Dilip Chitre: about the poet
Dilip Purushottam Chitre (1938-2008) was a notable Indian poet, critic, painter and filmmaker of the modern era. His father used to publish an important periodical Abhiruchi, and perhaps it had a great influence upon his career. Dilip himself went on to publish one named Shabda along with Arun Kolatkar and Ramesh Samarth. He was one of the most important figures behind the “little magazine movement” of the sixties in Marathi. His Ekun Kavita or Collected Poems were published in the nineteen nineties in three volumes. He also edited An Anthology of Marathi Poetry (1945–1965).

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