Read the poem and answer the questions given below.
Coromandel Fishers
Sarojini Naidu
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull’s call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, and the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He, who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.
Sweet is the shade of the coconut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.
Answer the following questions on the basis of reading of the poem:
(a) What does the phrase ‘The leaping wealth of the tide’ refers to?
(b) Why is the wind compared to a child?
(c) ‘The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn’ Which figure of speech is used in the given line?
(d) Which figure of speech has been used to describe the sea?
(e) Why do the fishermen prefer the dangers of the sea to the comfort of the land?
Answers
Hey there!!!
Here is your answer---
(a) -The leaping wealth of the tide refers to fishes.
(b) -The wind has been compared to a child because the wind had roared hard the previous night like a weeping child and this morning it is as silent as a sleeping child.
(c) -The figure of speech used in this line is metaphor.
(d) Personification has been used to describe the sea.
(e) -The sea provides the fishermen livelihood and presents them scope for adventure. Hence they prefer the foam of the waves and the kiss of the salt waters of the sea.
Hope this will help you!!!
As far as I know all the answer written above are correct I think.
Holaaa Mate
Answer:
✔(a) The leaping wealth of the tide refers to fishes.
✔(b) The wind has been compared to a child because the wind had roared hard the previous night like a weeping child and this morning it is as silent as a sleeping child.
✔(c) The figure of speech used in this line is metaphor.
✔(d) Personification has been used to describe the sea.
✔(e) The sea provides the fishermen livelihood and presents them scope for adventure. Hence they prefer the foam of the waves and the kiss of the salt waters of the sea.
hope it helps....!!!❤