Critically analyze the poem "In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" by Sarojini Naidu
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'In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’ is a beautiful descriptive poem which reflects the spirit of India as described by Sarojini Naidu. There is a variety of images making a colorful picture of not only of a bazaar but also of life itself. The bazaars of Hyderabad give a pen-portrait of a typical Indian market where the goods of various needs are displayed by all kinds of vendors. The bazaar is not only meant of the goods of daily use, there are sophisticated items like mirrors with panels of amber, daggers with handles of jade and bells for the feet of blue pigeons. The imagery of delightful colors - silver, purple, amber and green - is striking.
'In the Bazaars of Hyderabad' is one of the wonderful poems of Sarojini Naidu which uses different sensory words that add to the delightful description. The poem ends with the hard reality that the flower girls who make a crown for a bridegroom and chaplets to garland the bed of newlywed couple, also make sheets of white blossoms to be used on the shroud of the dead. Certainly, it not only shows the vibrancy of the bazaars of Hyderabad but also the different colors of life.