Volume : 10, Issue : 4, APR 2024

AN ANALYSIS OF SAROJINI NAIDU’S POETIC DEVICES

DR. ANAND KUMAR MINJ

Abstract

Sarojini Naidu, ‘The Nightingale of India’, is one of the major Indo-Anglian poets. She was born on February 13, 1879 at Hyderabad. In addition to being a great political leader, she was a poet of considerably high order. She passed away in 1949. She was acutely alive to all the delights and bounties of nature. She is captivated by the sights and sounds, hues and smells of common items. She has attempted to include all characteristic articles in her verse. She has composed sonnets on a wide range of trees, blossoms, fowls and seasons too. In her verse, there is finished congruity between man, nature and legend. Her sonnets uncover an unconstrained comprehension and significance of man's relationship with nature. Nature was a spring of unending ecstasy to her. Nature has for quite some time been a wellspring of motivation to the artists to create their sonnets and has stayed as a compelling energizer to uncover their feelings recalled in serenity. The issues of contemporary Indian culture are unequivocally introduced through legends, images, and complex nature pictures. They have been enthused to set their renderings to the changes of the scene, the adjustments in season, to the tweeting of flying creatures, the murmuring of the honey bees, to the stirring sound of the leaves and any characteristic marvels around them. Nature and writing have consistently shared a cozy relationship as is proven in progress of artists and different scholars down the ages in practically all societies of the world.

Her poetry anthologies such as The Golden Threshold (1905), The Bird of Time (1912), The Broken Wing (1917) and The Feather of the Dawn(posthumously published in 1961) have enormously enriched Indo-Anglian poetry. Sarojini Naidu’s writings are an ideal destination of scholarly pursuit in this connection. The spectrum of human relationship we find in her poetry is quite vast. Her recurrent focus on the essential human virtues in her poetry is very notable. She glorifies manual labour, love, community spirit, altruism, family values etc. in her poetry. Her poetry reminds human being of his inherent nobility. Her poetry can be an ideal guide to the contemporary society driven by consumerism and market economy that has lost its way of possible nobility and greatness. Her poems are everlasting records of dynamics of human relationships. She will indisputably continue to be relevant even in future.

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