This document discusses Sarojini Naidu as a poet. It notes that she was a freedom fighter and modern poet who was educated in Chennai and London. She wrote several poetry collections including The Golden Threshold, The Bird of Time, and The Broken Wing. Her poetry expressed the joys and sorrows of life and was sensitive to nature. She wrote on themes of children, nature, patriotism, and love and death. Her work was praised by contemporaries like Gokhale and Aurobindo for its beauty and ability to endure.

1. Sarojini Naidu as a poet
 Presented By: Abulhasan H Aabedi
 Topic: Sarojini Naidu as poet
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 Paper No: 4 Indian writing in English
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 Batch: 2017-19
 Email Id: abediabul@gmail.com
 Submitted To: Department of English MKBU

2. Introduction
 Sarojini Naidu(1879).
 A freedom fighter.
 A modern poet.
 Education: Chennai, London.
 She took part in the national
movement and also known as
Nightingale of India.

3. Literary Works
 The Golden threshold-1905.
 The bird of time: Song of life, Death & the spring
published in London-1912.
 Muhammad Jinnah: An ambassador of unity-1916.
 The broken wing: Song of love, Death and the spring-
1917.
 The sceptred flute: Song of India-1943.
 The feather of the dawn-1961
 The Indian weavers-1971.

4. Sarojini Naidu as a Poet
 The nightingale of India, Sarojini was a prolific writer
and poet.
 She composed poetry in which Swift thought and strong
emotions sprang in to lyrics by themselves.
 She has given expression to the joys as well as to the
sorrow of life.
 She was sensitive to the beauty of living things. Her
poetry includes children poems, nature poems, patriotic
poems and poems of love and death.

5. Her major contribution
 ‘The Golden Threshold’ Sarojini
Naidu’s first collection of poems
which come out in 1905.
 Her poetry in this collection seems
to sing itself as if Swift thought and
strong emotion sprang into lyrical
of themselves.
 Her emotion and pain very
beautifully into poem, this was
amazing creation of her.

6. The bird of time
 Was second volume of poem by
Sarojini Naidu printed on 1912.
 After read this Edmund Goose
remarked that in it ‘A Graver
Music’ in this part of poem
include ‘Song of life and death’.
 In this volume, there are many
love songs love and death and
death and life; is very beautifully
addressed to death and life for
example:
 “ Life is prism of my light and
death the shadow of my face”

7. The Broken Wings
 Sarojini Naidu’s final
collection of poem ‘The
broken wings’ came out in
1917.
 This collection is a memory of
her father and Gokhale. ‘The
flute player of a Brindavan’
and to a Buddha seated on a
lotus’.

8. Gokhale views on her work
 Gokhale said: Sarojini Naidu’s
speech was more than an
intellectual treat of the highest
order. It was a perfect piece of
art. We all felt for the moment
to be lifted to a higher plan. “
An another thing he said; “
you begin with a ripple and
end in eternity.”

9. Aurobindo quoted her work
 “Her works has a real beauty
some of her lyrical work is likely
I think to survive among the
lasting things in English
literature and by these even if
they fine rather then great she
may take her rank among the
immortals.”

10. Theme of Poetry
 Ode to the Nizam of Hyderabad- Royal
 In the forest – Nature
 Nightfall in the city of Hyderabad – Urban
 Village song- rustic life
 To India- patriotism
 The Indian weavers- common people
 Budhha seated on a lotus-Spirituality
 Death song, life song- Life and Death

11. The Nightingale of India
 Coromandel 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 kings of the sea!
 No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the
sea gull's call, The sea is our mother, the cloud is our
brother, the waves are our comrades all.
 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 cocoanut 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 edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with
the sea.

12. To sum up
 Thus, Sarojini Naidu indeed “Nightingale of India” she
wrote many poems upon nature, life, death, love poems,
men and women relationship as well as on patriotism
and her all poem we can sing melodiously.