Heir Conditioning by M.Shanmughalingam

I would like to help the secondary students in this post by paraphrasing one of the poem they would learn in form 1-3. I present to you Heir Conditioning by the famous Malaysian poet M.Shanmughalingam

Heir Conditioning

Grand dad did you breathe

Before air cons were invented

Wasn't it hard staying

Alive without modern inventions

Gandma weren't you flustered

As you fluttered with paper fans

Could you communicate before

Faxes and long distance calls

Became basic necessities?

Grand child 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

(source, Literature component form 1-3)

PARAPHRASED!

Stanza 1

In the first stanza the author questions on how in the past people managed to survived without modern invention such as air conditioning, hand phones and fax machines

Stanza 2

In the final stanza the author question on how future generations will live due to today's living standard. The author blames himself (his generation) for all the polutions that occur today and the destruction of mother nature. The highest power today accordint to the author is money and it controls everything (god like)

FINAL SAY

The author proves that he is one of Malysian's best poets with bold and vivid use of words and how he cleverly titled the poem Heir Conditioning (similar pronounciation to Air Conditioning)

If youre not satisfied by my paraphrasing of this poem, please leave a comment and say how you think it should be done.

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