5. Profile of
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu was born in February1879 in Hyderabad. Her first
collection of poems titled ”Golden Threshold”. After the
independence she became the first woman Governor of Uttarpradesh.
Her poems are in English, but have an Indian soul. She passed away in
March 1949
6. Rise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to
the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn
like a child that has cried all night
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore, and
set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the sons of the sea!
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track
of the seagull’s call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our comrades all.
7. What though we toss at the fall of the sun where
the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair ,will hide in
his breast our lives
Sweet is the shade of the coconut glade, and the
scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon
with the sound of the voices we love
But sweeter, O brother’s the kiss of the spray
and the dance of the wild foam’s glee,
Row, brothers, row to the blue of the verge, where
the low sky mates with the sea
8. GIST OF THE POEM
This poem deals with the dreams, determination & hard work of
the fishermen. They are willing to fight against the odds in life
with confidence in order to fulfil their dreams. The speaker in the
poem is a fisherman. They love the sea more. The fisherman
urges his friends to continue their rowing upto the horizon where
the sky & the sea seem to meet
9. Questions
1. Who is the speaker of the poem?
2. What does the speaker asks his friends to do?
3. The speaker has other friends than his fellow fishermen.
Who are they?
4. What is the leaping wealth of the tide ?
