Question

Summary of the poem bangle sellers by sarojini naidu

Answer 1

the poem Bangle Sellers was first published in 1912 by Sarojini Naidu Naidu's poem explores the imagery associated with bangles and the implications for women's roles in a traditionalist Indian social setting.  
A group of bangle sellers is on its way to the temple fair to sell their bangles. One of them is the narrator of this poem. The bangle sellers take their bangles to the temple fair to sell them. The bangles are termed as “lustrous tokens of radiant lives”. They symbolise love in people’s lives. The bangles are made for happy daughters and wives. The poet says that some of the bangles are made for the unmarried women and are silver and blue in colour. The bangles made for the bride glow like corn fields radiating in the morning. The bangles glow like the bride’s marriage flame and are rich like her heart’s desires. The bangles are tinkling with ‘luminous’ colours like the bride’s laughter and tears. Some bangles are made for the elderly women who have journeyed a great deal in their life. These bangles are of purpled in colour with gold fleckers. These women have served their household well, cradled their sons and have worshipped the household gods with their husbands beside them.The rhyme scheme of the poem is aa-bb-cc. The poem employs colorful imagery liberally and is an epitome of the typical Indian scene. Onomatopoeia is one of the figures of speech used to describe the sounds of the bangles, which gives a musical flow to the poem.

Answer 2

Bangle sellers take their load of bangles to the temple fair to sell them . The bangles are termed as " lustrous tokens of radiant lives " which means that they are symbols of love in people's lives . The bangles are made for happy daughters and wives . The poet says that some of the bangles are made for unmanned women and they are of silver and blue in colour . The other bangles made for the bride glows like the fields of corn during morning . Those bangles glows like the bride's marriage flame and rich in her heart's desires . The bangles are twinkling with ' luminous ' colours like bride's laughter or tears . Some bangles are made for the elderly women who have journeyed through half of their life . These bangles are of purpled in colour with gold fleckers . These women has served their household well , cradles their sons and have worshipped the household gods with their husbands besides them.