NAME:JANCY MARY.SREG NO:13352011

FATHIMA MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE KOLLAM

The Coromandel Fishers Sarojini Naidu

• 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 kings of the sea!

No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,

The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.

.What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?

.He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.

.Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,

.And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;

But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;

Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

Sarojini NaiduBorn: 13 February, 1879

Passed Away: 2 March, 1949

• Sarojini Naidu was truly one of the gems of the 20th century India. She was known by the sobriquet "The Nightingale of India". Her contribution was not confined to the fields of politics only but she was also a renowned poet. The play "Maher Muneer", written by Naidu at an early age, fetched a scholarship to study abroad. She briefed the struggles of freedom for independence to the political stalwarts of European nations, she had visited. She married Dr. Muthyala Govindarajulu Naidu, a South India. The marriage took place at a time when inter-caste marriage was not acceptable in the society. Her acts helped in raising many eyebrows. In 1905, a collection of poems, she had composed, was published under the title of "Golden Threshold".

• LifeSarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad. Her father, Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya was a scientist, philosopher, and educator. He founded the Nizam College of Hyderabad. Her mother, Varada Sundari Devi was a Bengali poetess. Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya was the first member of the Indian National Congress in Hyderabad. For his socio-political activities, Aghornath was dismissed from his position as Principal.National MovementSarojini Naidu was moved by the partition of Bengal in 1905 and decided to join the Indian freedom struggle. She met regularly with Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who later introduced her to the stalwarts of the Indian freedom movement.

• Since childhood, Sarojini was a very bright and intelligent child. Though Aghornath wanted his daughter to become a mathematician or scientist, young Sarojini was fond of poetry. At an early age, she wrote a "thirteen-hundred-lines" long poem "The Lady of the Lake". Impressed with her skills of expressing things with appropriate words, Aghornath Chattopadhyaya encouraged her works. Few months later, Sarojini, with assistance from her father, wrote the play "Maher Muneer" in the Persian language.

Sarojini's father Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya distributed some copies of the play among his friends and relatives. He also sent a copy to the Nizam of Hyderabad. Impressed with the works of the little child, the Nizam granted her a scholarship to study overseas. At the age of 16, she got admission in the King's College of England. There, she had the opportunity to meet prominent English authors like Arthur Simon and Edmond Gausse. It was Gausse who asked Sarojini Naidu to write on the Indian themes like great mountains, rivers, temples, social milieu etc.

• PoetBesides her role and sacrifices in the Indian Nationalist Movement, Sarojini Naidu is also commended for her contribution in the field of poetry. Her works were so beautiful that many were transformed into songs. In 1905, her collection of poems was published under the title "Golden Threshold". Later, she also published two other collections called "The Bird of Time", and "The Broken Wings".

DeathSarojini Naidu was the first woman Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Her chairmanship of the Asian Relations Conference in 1947 was highly-appraised. Two years later, on 02 March 1949, Sarojini Naidu died at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

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Summary of the poem

• Sarojini Naidu says that the sun has risen and it looks as if the sky is praying to the sun,there is no wind and the second line is a simile.the poet says that the narrator is calling out to his colleagues who catch fish,to start their day.they call themselves the king of the sea.The seagull is an animal that knows where the fish are,so the fishermen follow them.the poet also describes the scenery as close friends and family.The sea god is the controller of the sea (Poseidon in Greek mythology)the sea god will protect them.In the next para Sarojini Naidu describes that the fishermen like the land as well,but the waves and the foam of the sea is more calling to them.The poet,in the last line says that the sun is setting and it is time to go back to land.