Her Ideals: The Bird- Like Quality of Her Songs: The quality which lends charm to Sarojini Naidu’s verse, according to Arthur Symons, is the bird- like quality of song, which it contains. The poems in which this quality may be particularly and perceptibly visible are To My Fairy Fancies, To My Children and The Flute-Player … Read more
Sarojini Naidu’s Place and Position: The Koel of South, the nightingale of India, the peacock of Bengal, Sarojini Naidu as a poetess is half Keats, half-Yeats, partly in the tradition of the Indian devotional poetry, partly in the rut of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Georgian poets. Hence it is difficult to categorize her; she is … Read more
Introduction: On the basis of their themes, Sarojini Naidu’s lyrics may be divided into five broad categories: (1) Nature-lyrics, (2) love-lyrics, (3) lyrics of life and death, (4) folk-lyrics dealing with the life of the common folk of India, and (5) miscellaneous lyrics, including patriotic lyrics. These are not watertight compartments, there is much overlapping … Read more
Mysticism: The word “Mysticism” is a derived from “Mystes” which means a person initiated into the “mysteries”. “Mystes” in its turn is derived from the Greek word “muein” which means “to keep silence”. Thus, Mysticism is the belief that knowledge of God and of Real Truth is independent of the mind and the senses. Being … Read more