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Palanquin Bearers
Sarojini Naidu
About Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu was a great patriot. She was a freedom fighter and poet of modern India. She was born in a Bengali family on February 13, 1879 at Hyderabad and was educated in Chennai, London and Cambridge. She married Dr. Govindarajulu Naidu and settled down in Hyderabad. She took part in National Movement, became a follower of Gandhiji and fought for the attainment of Swaraj. She became the President of the Indian National Congress and later she was appointed the Governor of the United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh.
Known as the 'Nightingale of India', she composed poetry in which swift thoughts and strong emotions sprang into lyrics by themselves. She has given expression to the joys as well as to the sorrows of life. She was sensitive to the beauty of living things. Her poetry includes children's poems, nature poems, patriotic poems and poems of love and death. She was famous for using colourful languages in her poem.
In the year 1914, she was elected as Fellow of the 'Royal Society of Literature'. Her collected English poems have been published in 'The Sceptred Flute' and 'The Feather at the Dawn'.
Lightly, O lightly we hear her along.
She sways like a [lower in the wind of our song;
She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream,
She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.
Gaily, O gaily we glide and we sing,
We bear her along like a pearl on a string.
Softly, O softly we bear her along.
She hangs like a star in the dew of our song;
She springs like a beam on the brow of the tide,
She falls like a tear from the eyes of a bride.
Lightly, O lightly we glide and we sing,
We hear her along like a pearl on a string.
Available Answers
- 1.
Who is being carried by the palanquin bearers?
- 2.
What are the two adverbs used to describe the way the palanquin bearers were carrying their passenger?
- 3.
Where do you think they are going?
- 4.
Quote a word from the poem that indicates the mood of the palanquin bearers.
- 5.
Lightly, O lightly we bear her along.
- She sways liek a flower and about whom?
- Why has the word 'lightly' been used in this context?
- Identify the firure of speech used in the second line of the extract and explain it in your own words.
- 6.
Gaily, O gaily we glide and we sing,
We bear her along like a pearl on a string.- Explain the phrase 'like a pearl on a string.'
- Find an example of alliteration in the quoted lines.
- What has 'her' movement just been compared with?
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