summary of the poem bangle sellers in English
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mary in English by Sarojini Naidu
The Bangle Sellers Poem About the Poet
Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) was a freedom- fighter, states person and poet. She is known as the ‘Nightingale of India’ because of the beauty and melody of her poetry. She is, perhaps, the foremost among Indians who have written poetry in English, and no anthology of poetry is considered complete without some poems of Sarojini Naidu. She, invariably, chose Indian subjects and themes for her poems.
Some of her important works are – ‘Folk Songs’, ‘Songs of Love and Death’, ‘The Temple : A Pilgrimage of Love’, ‘The Queen’s Rival’, ‘The Golden Threshold.’
The Bangle Sellers About the Poem
All about the Poem The Bangle Sellers:
The Bangle Sellers’ is a poem of typical Indian scene and sensibility. The bangles are happy tokens of happy lives. They are meant for women of all ages.
‘The Bangle Sellers’ is one of her well-known poems. It is included in her collection of poems called The Bird of Time. It focuses our attention on the social, religious and symbolic value of bangles in Indian culture. No Indian widow is supposed to wear bangles. The wearing of bangles is suggestive of happiness, peace and prosperity. The newly weds wear bangles of different hues from those worn by unmarried girls.
The first stanza of the poem describes the brief, familiar setting of the poem : a group of bangle sellers is on the way to the temple fair to sell their bangles. The bangle sellers are poor, but they do not talk of their poverty. One of the bangle sellers tells us of each stage in an Indian woman’s life in terms of the longing for bangles of a particular colour. Each stanza, in fact, deals with each of the three stages in an Indian woman’s life : as a virgin girl, as an expectant bride and as a mature matriarch.