PPT ON A BEAUTIFUL POEM BY SAROJINI NAIDU

1. WELCOME
NIKKU SAIRA JOJI

3. GOOD MORNING KIDS
Hi dear students,
Today we are going to study a
beautiful poem by Sarojini Naidu,
"Song of a Dream".
Enjoy.

4. SONG OF A
DREAM
SAROJINI NAIDU

6. SAROJINI NAIDU
• She was the first Indian woman to become the President of the
Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the
governor of a state in India.
Sarojini Naidu was a distinguished poet, renowned
freedom fighter and one of the great orators of her time. She
was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of
India). Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the
President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman
to become the governor of a state in India.

7. Her Works:
 The Golden Threshold, published in the United Kingdom,1905
 The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, published
in London, 1912
 The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death and the Spring,
including "The Gift of India" (first read in public in 1915), 1917
 The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India, Allahabad: Kitabistan,
posthumously published, 1943
 The Feather of the Dawn, posthumously published, edited by
her daughter, Padmaja Naidu, 1961

8. BEAUTIFUL NATURE

13. DIFFICULT WORDS
• Grove (n) - a small wood or a group of trees
• Eg: an olive grove
• Gather (v)-come together, assemble
• Eg: as soon as the crowd gathered, the police came
• Gleam (v) – shine brightly
• Eg: He polished the table until it gleamed
• Delicate (adj) - graceful
• Eg: a delicate lace shawl.
• Quench (v) – satisfy (one’s thirst) by drinking

14. • Imageries in the poem
• Imagery- Language that makes people imagine pictures in their minds.
They appeal to our senses of sight,sound, taste, touch and smell,and
helps us form a mental picture.
• Visualimages in the poem:
• magical wood
• stars that glowed
• streams that flowed
• Can you find out more..?
• Poetical devices in the poem
• Similie - a diect comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
• Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang

15. • Metaphor- a direct comparison between unlike things stating that one
is the other or does the action f the other.
• And the spirits of Truths were the birds that sang.
• And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed.
• And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed.
• Personification- giving human traits and qualities to an inanimate
object.
• spirits of truth( does truth has spirit?)
• Alliteration- repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.
• Lone in the light
• gather of gleam