The poem 'Coromandel Fishers' by Sarojini Naidu uses the metaphor of fishermen to express the desire for India's freedom from British rule. Through three stanzas, the poet calls on freedom fighters to unite and fight for independence, emphasizing the connection to the land and the urgency of their cause. The poem employs various figures of speech, highlighting the natural elements as symbols of family and resistance against oppression.

1. English Summary
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2. Coromandel Fishers
By Sarojini Naidu

3. Summary and Analysis

4. Introduction
Sarojini Naidu as a poet belongs to an era of struggle,
slavery, and freedom fighting.
The poem is though about the fishermen, yet it
metaphorically reflects the poet's desire for free India.
The poem consists of three stanzas having four lines each.
The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABB.

5. Stanza 1
The wakening skies pray to the morning light, symbolises the land which is
welcoming the independence after being in the darkness of the slavery for so
long.
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all
night refers to the atrocities that the land of India and the people of India
had suffered in the hands by British during their cruel rule.
The poet asks the freedom fighters to gather our nets from the shore and set
our catamarans free.
They are the kings of the sea! which which refers to India.

6. Stanza 2
In the second stanza, the poet urges the freedom fighters not to delay and at
once start fighting as the leaders (sea-gulls) have declared a war against the
British and they should follow their leader’s path.
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our
comrades all i.e. the land theirs and everything in it is their family and hence
they (the freedom fighters) need not fear.

7. Stanza 3
In the final stanza, the poet says that the
comforts and the joys that the Indians enjoy
under the might be sweet but the fragrance of
independence and the feeling of being free is
quite sweeter and hence the freedom fighters
should wage a final war on the British.

8. Figures of Speech

9. wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a
child that has cried all night.
Simile

10. •wakening skies pray to the morning light.
•wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn.
•sea gull’s call.
•the sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our comrades all.
•He who holds the storm by the hair.
•dance of the wild foam’s glee.
•low sky mates with the sea.
Personification

11. English Summary
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