Write the summary of the poem "The Palanquin Bearers" by Sarojini Naidu in 50 words
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Explanation:
The poem The Palanquin Bearers is woven around the custom of carrying a bride in a palanquin by palanquin bearers. As they walk, they sing along. The palanquin bearers are delighted to carry the bride and don't feel the weight. The poem uses a number of comparisons with a flower, dew drop, pearl and the like. The bride carries a mixed feeling as she is leaving her parents and moving onto a new chapter in her life.
The poetess uses rich imagery to strike the apt comparison. A number of similes are used to show how delicate and light the bride is. She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream reveals that the bride is as light as a bird that passes a stream skimming through the foam of the stream.
The poem carries a number of similes: a flower, dewdrop and the laugh, to show how delicate and light the bride is, by using such similes the poetess’ intention is to get across that the bride is very tender and needs to be handled with care. The poetess is representing the bride as the heroine of the poem.
She describes the gesture of the bride by using different words of movement like sways, skims, floats and glide. The refrain gives the perception of a consistent and steady movement of the palanquin.
The poetess describes the bride as “she floats like a laugh” and then she writes “she falls like a tear”. This creates a contradiction because the bride is in tears since she is separating from her family, but she is laughing because she is going to start a new relationship with the love of her life.