Question

What does the poet achieve by describing bangles of different colours in the poem bangle sellers?

Answer 1

The poet describes bangles which are colored with rich yellow like the fields of sunlit corns. These bangles of the bangle sellers depict the major stage of a woman’s life when she becomes a bride. The color yellow, thus, refers to the boundless happiness of a would-be bride on her wedding morn:

Some bangles, she says, are flushed red in color like the newborn buds that hang on the brows of the woodland stream. Also, some bangles are there which are colored in light green just as bright as some newborn leaves. All such colors symbolize the joyful status of the prime of youth in every maiden’s life.