Question

He knelt no more his thoughts were raised /he felt himself a man
Reference to the context

Answer 1

Henry Derozio in his "Freedom to the Slave" describes the emotions of a man as he learns that he is not enslaved and praises his own freedom. The happy feeling mentioned by the speaker blends man with the natural world, which means that freedom is human beings 'natural state. Such "most glorious (noblest) sensations of the spirit" include pride and joy. The "heavenly air" (wind) that falls on this man expresses the metaphysical dimension of freedom. The man smiles, looks up to the sky and down to the stream and feels the kinship with the whole world, realizing that he is home. It makes him sob, "I'm as free as they are!

Explanation:

• The poet wants to be free of race, blood and tongue chains. He needs to be able to escape from the chains that bind him and others who divide people into castes, values, sects and nationalities. He wishes and dreams of man's absolute liberation and his supreme recognition as a human being.
• The poetry of Derozio shows the mood of the poet, which shifts from hope to despair, from liberation to oppression and from love to death. Poetry gives us witness to the spiritual struggle of the poet who desired independence but still courted racial and colonial subjugation.
• The poetry of Derozio has a way of touching the mirror image, the aspects that relate to the one subject. This yoke of conflicting features reflects the poet's own ambivalence and dialectical nature.
• His poems demonstrate the conflict in his lives between India's ethnic history and his liberalism, pro-West mentality and colonialism and repression.

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