This document provides biographical information about the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu and summarizes her poem "Coromandel Fishers". It notes that Naidu was born in 1879 in Hyderabad, wrote poetry with an Indian soul, and was the first woman governor of India. Her major works included "Golden Threshold" and poems like "Autumn Song", "Palanquin Bearers", and "An Indian Love Song". The summary of "Coromandel Fishers" describes fishermen preparing their nets and boats to catch the morning tide, calling on the sea as their mother and the waves as their comrades.

1. BHAGYALEKSHMI. K
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SUB: ENGLISH OPTIONAL

2. Sub issue : importance of hard
work and determination

6. SAROJINI NAIDU

7. • born in February 1879 in
Hyderabad.
• poems have an Indian soul.
• the first woman governor of India.
• first collection of poems –
‘Golden Threshold’.
• major works- Autumn Song,
Palanquin Bearers, Coromandel
Fishers, An Indian Love Song,
Ecstasy, Indian Weavers.
• passed away in 1949 March.

8. Coromandal Fishers
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 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.

9. 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 brothers , 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.

10. seagull-a common sea bird

11. catamaran - logs of wood tied
together as rafts

12. foam- mass of small white air bubbles
in a liquid

13. comrade- friend

14. figure of speech- simile
Simile is a figure of speech used to
compare two distinctively different
objects using like , as ..
Eg: The child lies asleep in the arms of
the dawn like a child that has cried all
night.

15. Rhyming words are words which
ends with same sound at the end of
the line .
e g : light – night
free – sea
call - all
drives – lives
grove - love
glee - sea