Question

comment on the changes in the life of a woman vis-a-vis the colour of her bangles . Taken from the poem - The Bangle Sellers

Answer 1

In her poem The Bangle Sellers the poet Sarojini Naidu has expressed her conception of Indian women in a traditional social set up. She has presented three stages of woman life here to show the changes in the life of a woman with regard to the colour of her bangles.

In the second stanza she talks about the maiden, an unmarried girl. A maiden wears silver and blue coloured bangles like ‘mountain mist’, sometimes pink and light red bangles like the ‘flushed buds’ and sometimes her bangles are brightly glowing. She is ‘flushed like the buds that dream’ indicating her chastity and her dreaming about marriage.

The next stanza of the poem is about her transition from a maiden to a wife. It’s her ‘bridal morn’ with ‘bridal laughter and bridal tear’. In this stage, the yellow bangles like ‘fields of sunlit corn’ and red bangles like ‘the flame of her marriage fire’ are most suitable for her. This stage of a woman’s life represent the passion of a newly made relation. ‘Bridal laughter and bridal tear’ expresses all the emotions attached with this transition in a girl’s life.

Finally, it is the middle aged woman ‘who has journeyed through life midway’. She wears bangles that are ‘purple and gold flecked grey’. She has reared her children with love and care. All she is concerned with now is her household, her family. She serves those with pride, ‘worships the gods‘ together with her husband and continues to live a happy life.

Answer 2

Poem - Bangle Sellers By Sarojini Naidu

Question:

Comment on the changes in the life of a woman vis-a-vis the colour of her bangles.

Answer:

In the poem ' Bangle Sellers' the changes in the life of a woman are described as mainder or unmarried girl, a bride, a mother and a faithful wife. They had suggested several colours of bangles which represents the various stages of a woman's life including blue, silver, pink, red which shows the desires and blooming beauty of her, reddish yellow shows the happiness and a little sad mood of her, when she was getting married and finally the purple and gold coloured bangles which shows that now she has become a perfect wife, a perfect mother and a perfect daughter in law.

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