Summar Woods - Sarojini Naidu

 

Eden - Part II English - II Year UG

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         Sarojini Naidu is a poet who is called as the nightingale of India. She writes about love, pain, and happiness. In "Summer Woods," she shows how much she dislikes the civilized and e sophisticated life. She tries to escape the monotony and the routines of her life.    

        She starts the poem by bragging that she is sick of "painted roofs and soft and silky floors" or the lies of "civilised and sophisticated" life. She “long for wind-blown canopies of crimson gulmohurs!” that hang over the roof of her summer home. She is “tired of strife and song and festivals and fame”. She wishes to go to the woods where cassia grows and live in the peaceful atmosphere there. 

        The poet begs her lover to come back with her to the country, where “koels call from flowering glade and glen”. She wants to get rid of both the social life and public life. She wants to put her worries away and lie down with her loved one under “the tangled boughs of tamarind and molsari and neem!”. 

        The poet wants to put jasmine on her forehead and play the carved flutes “to wake the slumbering serpent-kings among the banyan roots”. Later, at dusk, she wants to walk along the riverbank with her lover and “bathe in water-lily pools where golden panthers drink!” 

        In the last part of the poem, the poet tells her love that they should be together in the deep flowering woods and be silent. These silences in their love is more eloquent than speeches of fake people. 

        In this poem, Sarojini Naidu goes from day to dusk to night, which makes it seem like she wants to spend all of her time with her lover. As the poem goes from one stanza to the next, it goes from plants to animals and then to the gods.

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