by

SEEMA S DEV

ENGLISH OPTION

Candidate code:13352023

Rise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to

the morning light,

The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn

Like a child that has cried all night.

Come, let us gather our nets from the shore, and

set our catamarans free,

To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for

we are the sons of the sea!

PROFILE

Sarojini Naidu was born in February

1879 in Hyderabad. Her first

collection of poems titled “Golden

Threshold” was published in 1905.Her

poems are in English, but have an

Indian soul. The Indian Freedom

struggle was the heart and soul of her

work. After the independence she

became the first governor of Utter

Pradesh. She passed away in March

1949.

POETIC DEVICES

Personification –When the qualities of a person is

assigned to something non-

human.

E.g.; The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn,

like a child that has cried all night.

In the line above, dawn has been personified as a

mother. So the line above is a personification,

metaphor, an image and a simile.

Simile: A direct comparison of two unlike things using

“like” or “as.”

Example: He’s as dumb as an ox.

Example: Her eyes are like comets.

Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike

things, stating that one is the other or does the action

of the other.

Example: He’s a zero.

Example: Her fingers danced across the keyboard

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1) Who is the speaker of the poem?

The speaker of the poem is the fisherman.

2)What does the speaker ask his friends to do?

The speaker asks his friends to begin their work

early in the morning.

3)What is the leaping wealth of the tide?

The fish is the leaping wealth of the tide.

ACTIVITY

Write the rhyming words from the first eight

lines of the poem.

Rhyming words

Light - Night

Free - Sea

ASSIGNMENT

Write the summary of the first eight

lines of the poem