Paper Name: Indian Writing in English Assignment Topic :voice of an Indian woman in the poems of sarojini naidu Name: Solanki Pintu v Sem : 1 Roll No : 35 Enrollment No: PG15101037 Email: solankipintu1991@gmail.com Submitted to :

M.K. BHAVNAGARUNIVERSITY

Department Of English

Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879. Her father Aghoranath Chat -topadhyaya was a scientist and philosopher. Sarojini Naidu‘s mother Barada Sundari Devi was a poetess and used to write poetry in Bengali. Sarojini Naidu was the eldest among her eight siblings.

Sarojini Naidu was a brilliant student. She was fluent in Urdu, Telugu, Eng-lish, Bengali, and Persian. At the age of twelve, Sarojini Naidu attained na-tional fame when she topped the matriculation examination at Madras Uni-versity.

Sarojini Naidu was interested in poetry. She started writing poems in Eng-lish. At the age of 16, she traveled to England to study first at King's College London and later at Girton College, Cambridge.

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There are greater poets than sarojini naidu but none more original because she Shaw things with a fresh approach.

In her poems she reflects the whole range of mood and emotion with superb restraint of expression.

Her major themes were nature, love, life and death folk life, patriotism and mysticism.

The bangle seller Naidu's poem explores the imagery associated with bangles and

the implications for women's roles in a traditionalist Indian social setting.

The bangle seller is trying to convince the purchasing public of the spiritual and symbolic importance of these bangles.

In this process, the speaker makes strong connections between the bangles and their role in providing "happy daughters and happy wives."

Palanquin Bearers

The bride in a beautifully decorated palanquin was a common sight in rural India even in the recent past.

The lonely lady inside the palanquin is compared to a flower, a bird, a dream, a soft laugh and a pearl; the appeal is swift and direct to the heart.

The tone of the palanquin bearers is in complete rapport with the heart-beat of the woman insidethe palanquin. The poet captures the emotionally charged atmosphere brilliantly.

The Radha

The Radha poem of Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949),through their depiction of Radha's love for the Divine Beloved, worshipped as a worldly lover, Ghanashyam, forcefully delineate and critique the traditional Indian concepts of love and woman's destiny.

Naidu's Radha poems thus try to put forward a new concept of Indian womanhood that values the female self, teaching in it the principles of autonomy and self worth.

  The purdah nashin  she wrote this poem for the Muslim ladies who always cover

their faces with veil. she comment on their way of living. she don not want to hurt their religion .

she was a little upset about the fact that the Muslim women have to cover their faces every time.

she praised the honest thought of their religion of protecting their women by the meant of veil cover their face which will not allowed other men to see their faces, they might believe that there women are secure in that way. but what is life if there is no freedom.

Sarojini naidu for Indian women

She was responsible for awakening the women of India. She brought them out of the kitchen.

She traveled from state to state, city after city and asked for the rights of the women. She re-established self-esteem within the women of India.

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