Abstract
Sarojini Naidu, a poetess with perfect knowledge of English language gained the spectacular success as the nightingale of India. She was a successful poet of early twentieth century along with being a true patriot. Sarojini Naidu looked into the locations, sounds, colours, quality and moods of nature remarkably and incredibly. She was a versatile poet and had written her poetry on different themes. Her poems project different themes like love, folk life, challenges of life and death, nature, Indian customs and traditions, but she was always inclined towards nature, specially towards spring season. The poet was particularly enticed and mesmerized by the bliss and astonishing gifts of springs. In spite of the short tenure of her artistry she had lyrical elegance, exquisite passion and enchanting melody in her poetry. Her major works The Golden Threshold, The Bird of Time and The Broken Wing overflow with many wonderful and picturesque beauty of Indian natural landscape.
Highlights
In classical Indian poetry nature was treated as the physical environment of man and not as the inner landscape reflecting and reacting to the outer world
Till 1913 Indian poetry in English was evolved and the poets like Rabindra Nath Tagore, Shri Aurbindo, Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu succeeded in creating an independent image of Indian poetry
After the precious advice of her trusted guide Edmund Gosse she surprisingly commenced writing about the Indian nature, Indian seasons and Indian birds and flowers, Indian life and Indian ethos
Summary
In classical Indian poetry nature was treated as the physical environment of man and not as the inner landscape reflecting and reacting to the outer world. Sarojini Naidu’s poetry is a beautiful blending of Wordsworthian enthusiasm and classical Indian quality. Contrary to these Indo-Anglian poets in the last decades of ninetieth and early twentieth century Sarojini Naidu wrote on Indian and oriental themes in her poems.
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