How will the experience of both joy and pain enlighten the poet in The Soul’s Prayer?
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Sarojini Naidu was one of the most gifted immortal artists whose writings catch the attention of the people not only in India but also in abroad. There are greater poets than Sarojini Naidu but her name is at the top due to her original approach as she sees things with a fresh approach and her enchanting poetry that has thrilled several generations. Her poetry is appreciated, for its bird like quality. In this reference in the introduction of her collected poems published many years later under the title The Sceptred Flute, Joseph Auslander wrote, “If she sings as the birds do, she sings out of a darker passion. Her song is not ephemeral. For that matter neither is the bird’s song. It is no more transitory than truth and her bird music was always true. She never writes for the mere sake of writing. There is no artifice in her poetry. She sings from the heart.”[1] In a letter to Arthur Symons, Sarojini Naidu also wrote, “I am not a poet really. I have the vision and the desire, but not the voice. If I could write just one poem full of beauty and the spirit of greatness, I should be exultantly silent for ever; but I sing just as the birds do, and my songs are as ephemeral
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