SAD I AMS

Themes & Moral

Values
THEMES
Neglect, abandonment and
rejection
All objects whether animate or inanimate have
feelings and should be treated with care, love
and respect.
Today, people have become careless and
indifferent. They thoughtlessly throw away old
and unwanted things and neglect people.
Inanimate things have no voice but they want to
be useful and valued again. The old, infirm and
disabled are voiceless but they have feelings too
and want to be part of a living, thriving, vibrant
society
The importance of recycling
In our modern thrown away society, it is all too
easy to eliminate waste and old, unwanted,
unused things.
However, some of these objects can be reused
or recycled.
Thus, new or refashioned/recreated items can
be produced, sold and reused in a different form.
The poem encourages recycling which is helpful
to our modern world of waste and destruction.
 Awareness of changes in
behaviour in people
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Being alert about changes
R in our surroundings
Understanding young
THEM people
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Changes and circumstances
Accepting reasons without
prejudice
Necessity is the mother of
invention
MORAL VALUES
Love, compassion and
kindness

We must be kind and compassionate to

others whether they are animate or
inanimate.
Everyone and everything around us has
some use. They have served us according
to their nature and make.
Hence, we must treat the person or thing
with love, compassion and kindness when
it is old, hurt or less attractive and useful.
Respect
We must respect and recognise
the past service (and sacrifice) of
the things we own and used.
It is not right to carelessly
abandon or neglect them when
they have outlived their utility or
lost their beauty.
Responsibility
In an age of environment
destruction, it is imperatives that
we be responsible for preserving
what is left of Mother Nature.
We must be vigilant and
accountable for how we treat our
household waste and items or
people who are in need
Public Spirit
We must take an active interest
in important social issues like the
need to preserve our air, land
and water, including our senior
citizens. If we come forward and
raise awareness, others will be
influenced to act positively as
well.
MESSAGE
Be more sensitive to the
feelings of others
Animals, like human beings, must not be
thoughtlessly discarded. They, like
inanimate objects, must be treated with
Bedignity
more and vigilant
respect even and
if they have
outlived their usefulness to society.
creative about recycling
goods
To save the environment, it is necessary to
devise new ways to reprocess and reuse goods
which have been neglected or abandoned.
 Desolation and sadness
This is in keeping with the
theme of neglect,
TONE abandonment and rejection.
Loneliness
& When an object or person is discarded
and left alone, feelings of loneliness

MOOD prevail. This mood of loneliness is

prevalent in the poem.

Nostalgic and regretful

Abandonment and neglect give
rise to feelings of nostalgia and
regret. There is a longing for the
past when youth, vigour and
vibrancy were the order of the