The Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu lived during the epoch of the Indian resurrection which received a fresh impetus during the Gandhian age. This period also called the period of Indian resurgence witnessed a major shamble in the political, social and economic realms. There was an arousing among several sections of society which included women, the youth and the tyrannized classes. All of them had suffered greatly under the pressure of traditional authority. That was the time for burgeoning of romantic poetry and numerous poets and writers instigated to contribute to the literary progress of the era.
Sarojini Naidu spontaneously expressed her aspirations and twinges in her inscriptions. Poetry came to her as an innate bequest and was …show more content…
These lines express her romantic sentiments and her total dependence on him for happiness. She desperately entreats him to return and acknowledge the profundity of her love.
In the second poem “At Dusk”, When Radha knows that her lover is coming to meet her in the evening she gets herself dressed in all her finery to receive him. She uses rich and rare perfume to smear her body and a paste of saffron and sandal to enhance her beauty. She adorns her hair with a variety of fragrant flowers. She wears shining garments in blue, pink and golden colour and precious ornaments like breast band, fillets and fringes made of glittering gems and pearls which make her appearance beautiful where even the beautiful moon would feel shame of himself by seeing this pearl-white spotless beauty “Radha”. She desires that this appearance could make her lover to please and draw her lover’s attention. She gives instructions to her friends to cover Krishna’s coach with buds and ripe blossoms and to darken the doorways with flowering branches. This shows the ecstasy in the expectation of a mystic union and the poet conveys this union in terms of erotic …show more content…
The exciting expectation of a blissful union makes her confess that her heart is shivering like a leaf and her limbs are faint and quivering like tumultuous waves. She beseeches the river Yamuna to sing her bridal song as the night passes. She feels apprehensive and dejected of not arriving Krishna and says –
“O, like a leaf doth my shy heart shiver,
O, like a wave do my faint limbs quiver,
Softly, softly, Jamuna river
Sing thou our bridal song.”
The ending lines of the poem show the depth of her love and nervousness of her condition as she is waiting and hoping for the arrival of her beloved. The invocation of Yamuna river reflects the poet’s romantic tendencies in which how the elements of nature participate in the lives of the lovers. Here, the poet beautifully reflects the lover’s anxiety and restlessness which runs throughout the poem. In the final poem “The Quest”, Radha searches for her beloved Krishna but unable to find him. The poem shows the frantic quest for Krishna and says –
“My foolish love went seeking thee at dawn,
Crying – O wind where is Kanhaya gone?
I questioned at moonrise the forest glade,
Rests my sweet lover in thy friendly shade?
At dusk I pleaded with the dove gray tides,
O tell me where my Flute Player
Sarojini Naidu spontaneously expressed her aspirations and twinges in her inscriptions. Poetry came to her as an innate bequest and was …show more content…
These lines express her romantic sentiments and her total dependence on him for happiness. She desperately entreats him to return and acknowledge the profundity of her love.
In the second poem “At Dusk”, When Radha knows that her lover is coming to meet her in the evening she gets herself dressed in all her finery to receive him. She uses rich and rare perfume to smear her body and a paste of saffron and sandal to enhance her beauty. She adorns her hair with a variety of fragrant flowers. She wears shining garments in blue, pink and golden colour and precious ornaments like breast band, fillets and fringes made of glittering gems and pearls which make her appearance beautiful where even the beautiful moon would feel shame of himself by seeing this pearl-white spotless beauty “Radha”. She desires that this appearance could make her lover to please and draw her lover’s attention. She gives instructions to her friends to cover Krishna’s coach with buds and ripe blossoms and to darken the doorways with flowering branches. This shows the ecstasy in the expectation of a mystic union and the poet conveys this union in terms of erotic …show more content…
The exciting expectation of a blissful union makes her confess that her heart is shivering like a leaf and her limbs are faint and quivering like tumultuous waves. She beseeches the river Yamuna to sing her bridal song as the night passes. She feels apprehensive and dejected of not arriving Krishna and says –
“O, like a leaf doth my shy heart shiver,
O, like a wave do my faint limbs quiver,
Softly, softly, Jamuna river
Sing thou our bridal song.”
The ending lines of the poem show the depth of her love and nervousness of her condition as she is waiting and hoping for the arrival of her beloved. The invocation of Yamuna river reflects the poet’s romantic tendencies in which how the elements of nature participate in the lives of the lovers. Here, the poet beautifully reflects the lover’s anxiety and restlessness which runs throughout the poem. In the final poem “The Quest”, Radha searches for her beloved Krishna but unable to find him. The poem shows the frantic quest for Krishna and says –
“My foolish love went seeking thee at dawn,
Crying – O wind where is Kanhaya gone?
I questioned at moonrise the forest glade,
Rests my sweet lover in thy friendly shade?
At dusk I pleaded with the dove gray tides,
O tell me where my Flute Player