2.2 Indian Weavers (Appreciation)

 

English Poem Appreciations 12th HSC Board
Section Two (Poetry)

Unit 2.2

Indian Weavers

Indian Weavers

                        - Sarojini Naidu

Weavers, weaving at break of day,
Why do you weave a garment so gay?
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,
We weave the robes of a new-born child.

Weavers, weaving at fall of night,
Why do you weave a garment so bright?
Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green,
We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.

Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the moonlight chill?
White as feather and white as cloud,
We weave a dead man's funeral shroud.
                               
                               - Sarojini Naidu

 Q.  With the help of the following points, write a poetic appreciation of the poem               'Indian Weavers.'

• About the poem/poet and the title

• The theme

• Poetic style

• The language/ poetic devices used in the poem    

• Special features

• Message, values, morals in the poem

• Your opinion about the poem

 

Appreciation of the poem :-

Indian Weavers

The title, 'Indian Weavers' has symbolic and spiritual meaning. The poem is written by an Indian poetess Sarojini Naidu. She is known as the Nightingale of India. She was the first Indian women who became the President of the Indian National Congress. Indian weaver is a short poem but it has deep sense of human life.

The poem is about the three types of clothes 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, adulthood, death. The poem is a beautiful way to embrace the weavers of India. The weavers are not only skillful but also talented. The central idea of the poem is remarked that all human being who are born in this earth, rise up, feel their joys, sorrow and finally have to die one day. The weavers reply to the questions that why they are weaving a particular cloth of a certain color at that time of day. The poem has three stanzas of four lines each. The language texture of poem is simple yet profound. Figures of speech like Imagery, Metaphor, Interrogation, Simile, Euphemism are used in the poem. The rhyme scheme used in the poem is 'aabb'.  

This poem is best to throw light on Indian philosophy that is birth, youth and death are the ultimate truth of life. This poem gives us spiritual and philosophical. I like the poem because of its language and the question answer method really worked a lot to read the whole poem.

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