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Sumarry of Indian weaver

Answer 1

The poem can be folded into three parts – each stanza represents the three stages of life. Each stage represents childhood, youth and old age, respectively. Or more appropriately, birth, living life, and death appear to have been signified as the three stages of the cycle of life. Nonetheless, we find that the poem has been structured in a question-answer pattern. The poet asks three questions to the weavers and they answer accordingly, to put it simply. However, in the questions and answers lies the temperament of the poem.

In the first stanza, the poet enquires about the weavers, weaving while the rays of sunlight hit the earth. She is inquisitive since they are weaving, or working when it is too early to even be awake. Moreover, the garment that is being prepared seems profoundly “gay”( happy) to the poet. Thus, her inquiry seems to be obvious. And, then the weavers answer by saying that they are making a garment for a “new-born child” which is of the color blue – that blue, which the halcyon bird has been dipped in – gay and merry and bright in its innocent appearance. The fact that the weavers weave “at the break of day” is very important. The start of a new day has been used as a metaphor for the start of a new life.  The halcyon bird( a mythical bird, could be kind of Kingfisher as well) has been used as a simile, to give us a hint about the majestic royalty that is symbolic of the color blue. Majestic and royal because a child is the apparition of God himself. Thereby, one can easily guess that the occasion of being born on the earth is being celebrated in the first stanza of the poem, signifying the arrival of new hope to the world.

The second stanza of the poem is in every manner more significant since it deals with that part of our life in which we are most active, each as if capable of conquering the world. The poet again goes on to ask the weavers,  what have they been weaving rather why have they been weaving, at the “fall of night”( which should stand for the evening), such a bright garment. To which, the weavers announce that they are making the “marriage-veils of a queen”, that is to be feathery thin, and “Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green”. Thus like the feathers of a peacock, the veil has to be engulfed with the color purple and green. Purple may signify the extravagance of a kingly kind, showy and bedazzling. But the color green could stand for Nature and also for youth, prosperity, and beauty. For youth lies in the epitome of our life, when all can be done, dreams can be dreamt and realize. It symbolizes hope. It could be that the poet tries to bring our attention to the fact that though the night is falling, and the youth of each’s life is passing, we tend to fight the aging by wearing bright and cheerful things, to make ourselves happy and cloaked from what is to come. Being devoid of gloom, we transcend ourselves to the beauty that life itself is

Answer 2

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The poem describes the different stages of Human life, i.e. Birth, Marriage and Death. In another way it tells about the life-cycle of a human being means Childhood, Youth, and Old age. The poetess asks three questions to Weavers and their answers are relates to life.

The poetess says that Weavers started their work in early morning and they make bright garments in blue colour as the wings of the Kingfisher. When the poetess ask the question, Weavers tell that they weaving the garment of a new born Child. It relates to the childhood of a person. The childhood is more attractive like blue colour.

The night time the Weavers weaving attractive garments in purple and green colour like the plumes of a peacock. When the poetess asks the question, they tell that it's a marriage veil of a Queen. This suggests the youth of a human being. Youth is the golden time of a life, energetic, enjoyable and attractive. So that's why here used the expression 'The plumes of a peacock, purple and green'.

In the moonlight night the Weaver's attitudes changed, they become serious and calm. The garment is white colour like feather and cloud. They are weaving the cloths of a Dead man's funeral shroud. It clearly indicates the old age of a person. The white colour feather and cloud are carrying to the statement that the end of life, feather had come out from the wing now it has no use and the cloud is moving, after few minutes we can't see the cloud in the actual place.