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Golden Research Thoughts ISSN 2231-5063 Impact Factor : 2.2052(UIF) Volume-4 Issue-6 Dec-2014 Available online at www.aygrt.isrj.org GRT SELECTED POETRY OF SAROJINI NAIDU: A BRIEF REVIEW Sunil Patil Associate Professor, Department of English, Arts and Commerce College, Ashta, Tal. Walwa, Dist. Sangli (Maharashtra) Abstract:- Sarojini Naidu was called as Bharat Kokila (the Nightingale of India) on account of her beautiful poems and songs. Her poems are deliberately meant to be heard rather than to read or to study. In her poems sound and sense combine to produce an emotion like in music. She is a versatile poet, drawing the rich traditions of several Indian languages, religions, regions in her work. The first volume of her poetry, The Golden Treshhold (1905), followed by The Bird of Time (1912) and The Broken Wings (1917). The Feature of the Dawn, a volume of poems edited by her daughter Padmaja Naidu and published in 1961. In 1916, she had written and published a biography of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, entitled as The Ambassadar of Hindu Muslim Unity. Keywords:Sarojini Naidu, beautiful poems and songs, patriotic sentiments. INTRODUCTION : Her major themes are love, common life of Indian people, beauty of Indian scenes and sights, Indian traditions, philosophy of life and patriotic sentiments of Indians. She is primarily considered to be a love poet, and her love poetry explores the various aspects of love, such as love in union, love in separation, the pains of love, earthly love, sins of love, divine love etc. Her images are stylized sophisticated. The fusion of personal emotions through Indian ethos, in a lyrical manner vividness of imagery is major feature of her poetry. When Sarojini was an unknown young girl, she published in 1905, The Golden Threshhold which contains forty poems classified into three sections -- Folk Songs, Songs for Music and Poems. Folk songs are about the folk themselves. Those are the most interesting among her poetical output. They breathe the spirit of India and these are the songs that the heart of our country is laid bare. In Ecstasy she has put her image beautiful hues through her epithets: a golden storm of glittering sheaves, of fair and trail and fluttering leaves. The poem Palanquin Bearers has contributed a great for folk songs. The movement is rhythmic march of the palanquin bearers through streets. The bearers sing gaily of the beauty of the lady as they carry her along in their palanquin. Seven similes emphasize her beauty : She sways like a flower, skims like a bird, floats like a laugh; hangs like a star, springs like a beam, and falls like a tear. J. H. Cousins remarks that, there is no thought but it is meaningful. The wandering singers were called Bhats, and they roamed about from place to place, playing music and singing songs, delighting the hearts of their numerous hearers, and making an honest penny for themselves. Singing and playing on roads and streets, in villages and towns, at banquets and weddings on festive occasions, private as well as public the wandering minstrels have always presented a picturesque sight, and even these days one not infrequently comes across them, A Man s birth, life and death are the subject matter of Indian weavers. This poem brings the picture of a man, clad in his typical turban and dress, and playing upon the flute besides some bush in a moonlit garden trying to capture a snake. Village Song is set in the pastoral atmosphere of Indian country side. The folk life with its native colours figures forth in the poem. It is a song sung by village maiden to the tune of some dialect song: Full of my pitchers and far to carry / Lone is the way and long. Corn- Grinders brings out the idea that life cannot be divided into categories: all life is one. The life in the mouse is the same as the in the deer, and the life in the deer is the same as the life in a human being. For Indian peasants the harvest season has paramount importance. The harvest fills their granaries with corn and their pockets with money. Sunil Patil, SELECTED POETRY OF SAROJINI NAIDU: A BRIEF REVIEW, Golden Research Thoughts Volume 4 Issue 6 Dec 2014 Online & Print 1
. Selected Poetry Of Sarojini Naidu: A Brief Review Her second collection of poems The Bird of Time appeared in 1912 with an introduction by Edmand Gosse. It contains forty six poems divided into four sections entitled Songs of Love and Death, Song of the Springtime, Indian Folk Songs and song of life. The poetess calls herself, figuratively, the Bird of Time. She indicated the subject matter of her poetry and the source wherefrom she has learnt the changing measures of her songs. Dirge, another poem from this volume deals with the widowhood of a fresh, young bride. This sonnet presents a picture of the nocteral vigil of a wife by the side of her sinking husband. Her eyelids heavy with keeping awake night after night, her soul burdened with the grief of the coming inevitable hour, body tired with tending the invalid, and the devoted wife falls asleep. The Hussain Saagar deals with a beautiful lake in Hyderabad. Sunrise and sunset over a lake is always an irresistible sight. Indian Love song presents a conventional love poem with images and with masculine and feminine voices. The last of Sarojini s book published The Broken Wing in her life time. These were called her Song of Love, Death and Destiny. The Broken Wing replies that she will soar up even on a broken wing. Gokhale, her mentor asked a question to her when she was ill in England. Her attachment to Allahabad is reflected in her The Imam Bara. The Lotus Lakshmi, the lotus born Durga Puja synchronizes with the harvest season in this poem. In olden days it was celebrated with the women in the villages welcoming the return of the farmers from the fields. The Feature of the Dawn was published after her death by her daughter, Padmaja. The title of this book of poems is taken from a dance by the Denishawn Dancers based on Hopi Indian legend. It is a legend about a feather blown into the air at dawn. It was believed that if such a feather is caught by a breeze and carried out of sight marks the opening of an auspicious day. This collection includes the Poems of Krishna and Songs of Radha. Here the poetess turns from human to Divine love. These poems seem to indicate lover s complaints, pinning of lovers and separation of lovers. When we analyze these poems, we come across variety of subjects. Palanquin Bearers is her best known poem in an intricate metrical composition, each line having four feet with three anapests, followed by a shorter iambic foot. According to Dastoor (1961:23), the poem is a fair specimen of the true folk song. He further observes that it recalls a common experience in the India of a century ago, and the song of Planquin Bearers expresses in its movement the mutt led mumblings which dictated the rhythm of their march through the streets (23). Wandering Singers rightly reveals the search for cultural identity of the Indians. It gives expression to the distant Indian folk personality, in order to reintegrate the Indians with their rich cultural heritage. According to Prof. C. D. Narasimhaiah Indian Weavers is highly impressive poem. The poet here is in full possession of rare gifts a profound awareness of her own tradition admirable poise, economy and an ear, eye for striking rhythm, image and symbol, all used to fine advantage to make the poem most evocative. Indian aesthetics of the poetess is clearly seen in the poem Indian Dancers. Every sense is reflected through over abundance of lush and over ripe imagery. The orient is painted through extravagant sensuality to create narcotic or opiate mood. This aesthetics is supported by feudal luxury, which is declining in her time, The Pardah Nashin shows just the poet s fascination for the mysterious purdah world and to be fascinated is not necessarily to approve of it. Thus, Naidu s anti pardah attitude has a purpose to sanction freedom to women from social taboos and make them aware about the self respect. In To India the poet is fully confident of the bright future of her country. She interprets the period of slavery through which her country is passing as a period of mother s long slumber. The poet is quiet hopeful that soon the mother who was once a great power, will regain her last glory and be crowned with crescent honours splendours and victories. Indian Gipsy traces the long continuity of the primitive ways of living. Dirge is a aesthetically appealing as a champion of women s rights. The Bird of Time shows Naidu s philosophic attitude and signs of joys and sorrows of life that she has learnt from nature and culture. Indian Love Song is depiction of inter caste and inter religions romance. A Song in Spring is reflection of interest in nature. Vasant Panchami is about the spring festival deliberately introduced with a combination of note of grief and joy both. She says life is a balance of opposites. Village Songs is another folk song about Indian myths. If represents problems of Gopi from Mathura delayed on her way back from the river. Karuna rasa appeared in The Old Women. This is a realistic picture of an old woman. An Anthem of Love is a sincere expression of the poet s deep love and divine duty towards her land. The urge of patriotism defines the spirit of nationalism. The poem is a passionate and sincere in its tone. The Gift of India and Lotus from The Broken Wing are about the tribute to the brave sons of India and about dedication to Mahatma Gandhi. Naidu is influenced by the Indian soldiers devotion during The First World War. The boundless grief of Mother India for her heroic sons, who were killed in alien lands. A strong note of protest against the imperialists is implicit in the poem, The Gift of India. Lotus highlights Mahatma s virtues and the spiritual height he attained during his lifetime. She has been fascinated by the diversity of Indian s religions and has tried to understand each of them with sympathy and love. In most of her patriotic songs are in the form of prayers to Mother India. She expressed her belief in all faith living together and through their acts of love and sacrifice building up a new image of united India, The glory of Lord Krishna Radha s love is depicted. Ghanashyam from The Feather of The Dawn attempts to bring the rich tradition of Krishna Poetry into Indian English. She turns from human to divine love. Thus, in her poetry, in spite of western influences, we find the native Indian colours and folk culture. Through her folk poetry, she portrays the common life around her through gathered experiences. Myths and legends Golden Research Thoughts Volume 4 Issue 6 Dec 2014 2
. Selected Poetry Of Sarojini Naidu: A Brief Review also play an important role. We can catagories her poetry on the themes like Nature, Love, Life and Death, Indian Scene, Patriotism and Miscellaneousness. Her imagination is touched by the spring, the fresh flowers, the hills, mountains, lakes and fountains. She gives her moods to nature. We witness separation and union of love, despair, enjoy. There occurs the problems of life and death, mystery of life and death. Majority of her poems are depicting Indian culture, common sights of India and lives of common people. WORKS CITED 1.Paranjape, Makaranda R. Sarojini Naidu : Selected Poetry and Prose. New Delhi : Rupa Co, 2010. Print. 2.Khan, Izzat Yar. Sarojini Naidu, The Poet. Delhi : S. Chand.1983. Print. 3.Sharma, K. K. Perspective on Sarojini Naidu. New Delhi. Vimal Prakashan, 1980. Print. 4.Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu. New Delhi : Sahitya academy, 1974. Print. Golden Research Thoughts Volume 4 Issue 6 Dec 2014 3
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