The Bangle Sellers denotes the bangles and colours associated with different stages in a girl’s life. If the tables were to be turned, and you had to associate an ornament for yourself, what would you choose and what colours would you choose for each stage of your life and why 400 words
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Answer:
Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair…….
Question 1 : Why does the poet use the word ‘delicate’ to describe the bangles? How is ‘rainbow-tinted circles of light’ and appropriate description of bangles?
Answer : The poet uses the word ‘delicate’ to describe the bangles as they are made of glass and hence can break easily. ‘rainbow-tinted circles of light’ refers to the round shaped, multi-coloured bangles that glow in sunlight. Therefore, it is an appropriate description of the bangles.
Question 2 : Explain the following phrases from the poem in your own words; Shining loads, Lustrous tokens of radiant lives, For happy daughters and happy wives
Answer :
‘Shinning loads’ means the bangles which are sparkling in sunlight.
‘Lustrous tokens of radiant lives’ means bright symbols of shining lives.
‘For happy daughters and happy wives’ means that the radiant bangles are meant for happy daughters and happy wives. It expresses the happiness of daughters at young age and the joys a married woman has in her marital life.
Question 3 : The poet uses several images of sight and sound to create a musical effect in the poem.
Answer : The examples of these things are : ‘shining loads’, ‘Tinkling, luminous, tender, and clear’ and ‘Rainbow-tinted circles of light’.
Question 4 : What are the emotions that the poet associates with a bride on her wedding day? What colours are the bangles on her wrist that reflect these emotions?
Answer : The poet associates the emotions of happiness and sadness with a bride on her wedding day. She is happy as she is getting married and entering into a life of her dreams. She is sad because she is going to leave her parental home. The bride is wearing bangles that are deep red in colour which express the passion of her heart.
Question 5 : What colours does the poet associate with: a maiden, a middle aged woman. How does the poet describe the thoughts and concerns of women in both these stages of life?
Answer :
Blue, green, red and silver colours are associated by the poet with a maiden.
Purple and gold-flecked grey colours are associated by the poet with a middle-aged woman.
The maiden is fresh and beautiful and dreams of getting married. The middle-aged woman is mature and responsible. She is concerned about fulfilling her household duties.
Extract – II
Some are meet for a maiden’s wrist,
Silver and blue as the mountain mist,
Sone are flushed like the buds that dream
On the tranquil brow of a woodland stream,
Some are aglow with the bloom that cleaves
To the limpid glory of new born leaves.
Question 1 : As per the poetess, what types of bangles are suitable for young maidens?
Answer : According to the poetess young maidens symbolises purity and freshness. The youth in them shines and the light attracts everybody’s attention towards them. So they should wear the types of bangles that can compliment their beauty and freshness. Hence they are advised by the poetess to wear the bangles of silver and blue colours.
Question 2 : Explain the express “flushed like the buds that dream”
Answer : Beautiful imagery has ben used by the poetess here. The poetess is comparing the colour of some of the bangles which is worn by young maidens. Some bangles are in pink and reddish colour and they have been compared to the colour of a blooming bud growing along a silent riverside that flows through the forest.
Question 3 : Why are silver and blue colours compared to the mountain mist?
Answer : According to the poetess the bangles of maidens are always new and bright. They are pure and untouched which look extremely beautiful around her wrists. They usually produce silver and blue reflections, same as those of the mountain mist (fog) that makes the mountain look like the hands of a lady decorated with silver and blue bangles.
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