Describe various images the poet evokes in relation to the woman sitting in the palanquin
Answers
The images that the poet evokes in relation to the woman sitting in the palanquin are:
“sways like a flower in the wind of our song”
“skims like a bird on the foam of a stream”
“floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream”
In the poem "The Palanquin Bearers" the poet Sarojini Naidu talks about the feelings of the bearers who have to bear the 'noble burden' until the destination is reached. The palanquin bearers when feel exhausted and tired, they start to sing and shout in unison and change the position of the palanquin. Along with their songs and the movement of the palanquin, the lady sitting inside the palanquin too moves lightly and delicately.
Explanation:
All three images evoke a sense of everything being temporary and nothing being permanent. As against the lightness of being suggested by the words like glide, float, skim,sway, the palanquin bearers merely “bear” their precious burden bearing it along and experience beauty in the way their music of Ko ho Ko ho ho spreads in the air in the silence of the forest.