What is so Indian about the pen in the bazars of Hyderabad
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In the Bazaars of Hyderabad
In the Bazaars of Hyderabad- Sarojini Naidu
About The Poetess:
-The poem In the Bazaars of Hyderabad was written by Sarojini Naidu. It was published in 1912 in her collection of poems The Bird of Time.
-Sarojini Naidu was a dreamer, born in a dreamless age and an ardent, versatile and dynamic genius.
-She was a political activist, feminist, poet, essayist and the first Indian woman president of the Indian National Congress and was the first woman governor of an Indian State. She is often called the Nightingale of India.
-She is an unsurpassable for her sweet and melodious songs which are superb in the entire range of Indian English poetry.
-Sarojini Naidu, was on born Feb. 13, 1879, Hyderabad and left this world on March 2, 1949, in Lucknow .
-She was the eldest daughter of Dr.Aghore Nath, an eminent scientist and a Bengali Brahman who was principal of the Nizams College, Hyderabad.. Her mother endowed with bird like quality song, was a pious lady.
-Her brother Harindra Nath Chattopadhyay was a poet, playwright and composer.
-She entered the University of Madras at the age of 12 and studied (189598) at Kings College, London, and later at Girton College, Cambridge.
-After some experience in the suffragist campaign in England, she was drawn to Indias Congress movement and to Mahatma Gandhis Noncooperation Movement. In 1924 she traveled in eastern Africa and South Africa in the interest of Indians there and the following year became the first Indian woman president of the National Congresshaving been preceded eight years earlier by the English feminist Annie Besant.
-She is a poet of Indian thought and culture and her poems described Indian flora and fauna, Indian customs and traditions, festivals, men and women, places legends of kings and queens etc.
-She inherited secular values from her family and it reflects in her poems Ode to H.H. The Nizam of Hyderabad, The Pardah Nashin, Wandering Beggars, The Prayer of Islam, The Old Woman and Imam Bara.
-In 1947 she became governor of the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), a post she retained until her death.
Sarojini Naidu as a Poetess:
-Her first volume of poetry was The Golden Threshold (1905). It was followed by The Bird of Time (1912).
-Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English, have been published under the titles The Sceptred Flute (1928) and The Feather of the Dawn (1961).
-Apart from poetry, she also penned articles and essays like Words of Freedom on her political beliefs and social issues like women empowerment.
-The golden period of her poetic composition spans the period 1898-1914. Her first volume of poem The Golden Threshold (1905) was dedicated to her mentor, Sir Edmund Gosse. On his advise only she began to write about the colourful and variegated life of India.
-In the introduction to The Bird of Time, he writes: it comes from the pen of an Indian of extreme sensibility, who had mastered not merely the language but the prosody of the West&.
-Her poems always remind of us the India of Palanquin bearers, corn-grinders, wandering beggars, Pardah Nashin, of meditation, love and solitude.
The common elements we find in her poetry:
-Men and women belonging to different ranks in society singing harvest hymn to invoke Lord of the Universe, Hymn to Indra, Lord of Rain, Maidens, Brides, mothers, widow, artisans, peasants, victors, scholars, priests, poets, dancers, weavers, bangle sellers, etc.
-The plurality of Indian culture
-Various Indian festivals as Raksha Bandhan, Vasant Panchami, Diwali and Nagpanchmi
-Various facets of Islam and muslim life in India have been depicted in the Prayer of Islam, The Old Woman, Pardah Nashin and Imam Bara Patriotic note is found.
-India is presented as a land of beauty and song of love and laughter and pathos, of mysticism and meditation, and not a nation striving for scientific, technological, industrial and economic progress.
The characteristics of her poetry:
-Sensuousness and picturesqueness
-Profusion of colour imagery and radiant diction.
-Love of nature and humanity
-Mysticism and vivid recreations of Indian ethos
-The Feather of Dawn was posthumously published in 1961.
-In 1914 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
-Her early poetry is imitative of English romantics and Pre-Raphaelites.
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