Thinking about the Poem What are the things the wind does in the first stanza?
2. Have you seen anybody winnow grain
at home or in a paddy field? What is the
word in your language for winnowing?
What do people use for winnowing?
(Give the words in your language,
if you know them.)
3. What does the poet say the wind god winnows?
4. What should we do to make friends with the wind?
5. What do the last four lines of the poem mean to you?
6. How does the poet speak to the wind in anger or with humour? You must
to also have seen or heard of the wind "crumbling lives". What is your response
to this? Is it like the poet's?
The poem you have just read is originally in the Tamil. Do you know any such
poems in your language?
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the
weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in
puiting down roots as deeply as possible.
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