How does Sarojini Naidu became a poet?
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Sarojini Naidu was born on 13th February 1879 in a Bengali family at Hyderabad. Her father Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, who had a doctorate of Science degree from Edinburgh University, was the Principal of Nizam College of Hyderabad. Her mother, Barada Sundari Devi Chattopadhyay, was a poet and used to write poetry in Bengali.She entered the University of Madaras at the age of 12. Once she wrote a Persian play called “Maher Muneer”, which was very well received by the Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Mahbub Ali Khan. He provided her scholarship and she went to London to study first at King’s College, London, and later at Girton College, Sarojini Naidu has written poems on a variety of themes such as children, nature, patriotism and love and death. She is commonly regarded as “the Nightingale of India” because of her rich and melodious poetry and its themes. Her poems were full of imagery and emotions and are noted for their sensuous imagination, words and the lyrical quality.