4. •Life Period : 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949
•Known as : The Nightingale of India.
•An activist of freedom movement in India.
•She was the first woman to become the governor of
an Indian State.
•She writes beautiful poems that could also be sung.
•Famous works : The Golden Threshold
The Bird of Time
The Broken Wing
Sarojini Naidu
5. Once in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Stanza 1….
6. Glossary References
• Lone – lonely
• Sprang –To jump or leap
• Vision – The sense or ability
to sight
• Glowed – to give off light
7. Paraphrase
• The poet tells about her dream in which she attained
Peace.
• She describes “the magical wood” she dream of.
• She narrates that she was alone in magical woods. She
had a soulful visions, which she compares to a poppies. It
is an example of simile. The sight touches her soul as the
hues of poppy.
• In her imaginative world, the abstract values and
ideas of truth, love and peace are embodied in
tangible form of nature.
8. • They are no more just abstract ideas, but are
discernible objects with proper shape and
size.
• In the poets dream, “Truth” has transformed
into singing birds.
• “Love "into glowing stars.
• And “peace” into flowing streams.
[The magical wood is a perfect land of all ideal
values. It stands for her mother land where
Truth, Love and peace co-exist. ]
9. Questions
1. In the poet’s dream ‘truth’ is transformed
into ………………………
2. In the poet’s dream ……………………….. is
transformed into glowing stars.
3. ……………………….. is transformed into flowing
streams.
