Question

write the answers elaborately for the following(from the poem coromandel fishers) 1) Who is the poet addressing in the poem? 2) What is the wind being compared to and why? 3) According to the poet, what is the 'leaping wealth of the tide'? 4) Who does the poet refer to as 'the kings of the sea' and why? 5) What is the theme of the poem? Explain in about 50 to 60 words. 6) How has the poet used imagery in the poem?

Answer 1

1) Sarojini Naidu is the poet addressing in the poem 'coromandel fishers'

2) The leaping wealth of the tide refers to fishes. The wind has been compared to a child because the wind had roared hard the previous night like a weeping child and this morning it is as silent as a sleeping child.

3) The leaping wealth of the tide refers to fishes.

4) i dont know

5) Coromandel fishers is a complicated yet very beautiful poem written by Sarojini Naidu. This poem depicts the bond between the fishermen of the Coromandel coast and the sea. In this poem, she has also compared between the life on land and the life at the sea. She has personified nature in the best possible way.

6) i dont know

Answer 2

Answer:

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,

The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.

Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,

To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!

No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,

The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.

What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?

He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.

Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,

And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;

But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;

Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

                                                                                                                   - Sarojini Naidu