Title/Theme/P Devices/L Style/Message - Indian Weavers
Title - Indian Weavers
About Poet -
Sarojini Naidu was a great patriot, politician, speaker, poet and one of the most famous idols of the 20th century. Her birthday is celebrated as "Women's Day". She is known as the Nightingale of India (Bharatiya Kokila)
About Poem -
Indian weaver is a short poem but it has deep sense of human life. The poem has symbolic and spiritual meaning. It is expressed through the Indian weavers and act of weaving different clothes. It conveys and the stages of a day
The poem is about three types of clothe that the weavers weave at three particular times of a day. Each stanza of the poem represents the three important events of human life. birth (childhood), adulthood (young), death (old). The colours mentioned in the stanzas are very significant as they indicate the moods related to the events.
Theme / Central Idea -
The theme of the poem is about spiritual implication. The theme of spiritual implication is portrays through metaphorical symbols which carries eternal truth of human existence. The central theme of the poem expresses through the weaving act of weavers. They weave, at three specific times of the day, which are symbolic, of the three stages of a person's life. The central idea of the poem remarked that all human being who are born on this earth, rise up, feel their joys, sorrows and finally have to die one day. Everyone should be bearing in mind that death makes equal for the rich and the poor. No one spare a drop of pity because I am rich or poor. It is nature's eternal law and the life of human-beings is fragile. It is the completely in stable and vulnerable. The human life fills with happiness, enjoyment, excitement and sadness.
Poetic Devices -
The poetic devices of simile, symbolism, metaphor and imagery, have been used here, by the poetess. Almost all the lines exhibit alliteration : weavers-weaving, garment-gay, wing-wild, plumes-peacock- purple, solemn-still, white-white, etc. Its rhyming scheme is AABB. The poem has six rhyming couplets. The pairs of end rhymes in the poem are day-gay, wild-child, night-bright, green-queen, still-chill, cloud-shroud.
Language & Style -
The language texture of the poem is simple yet profound. The poem appears rather simple in a literal sense, but there are subtle expressions. This poem reflects Naidu's deeply spiritual and philosophical mindset. Her simplicity and strength of spiritual thoughts could be seen between the lines of Indian Weavers. It might have a symbolic meaning. It is a metrical short poem. It has three stanzas, of four lines each. The stanza pattern of the poem is Quatrain. The first two line of each quatrain has a question which is asked by poet or speaker and the last two lines of each quatrain are answers to the questions. It creates a rhythm and musical effect of reader.
Message,Values,Morals -
The poem give us spiritual and philosophical message of life. Every man and woman who is born finally has to die one day whether they are the rich or the poor. The poem reminds us the law of the natures and eternal truth of human existence of the earth. The poem also teaches the morals life that, life is so fragile and vulnerable.
Why I like the poem? -
I like the poem for its images and symbol used by poet. This poem is best to throw light on Indian philosophy that is birth, youth and death are the ultimate truth of life.
-Dr.Prof.Uday Shirgave
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