Indian Weavers Appreciation of the poem

 

Appreciation of the poem

Indian Weavers

1. About the poem, poet and title:-Indian Weavers is a short poem composed by a renowned Indian poetess, Sarojini Naidu. She was a political activist, feminist and the first Indian woman who became the President of the Indian national Congress. She was an important figure in India’s struggle for Independence.

In this poem, the poetess talks about three types of garments that the Indian weavers weave at three particular times of a day. This poem highlights the three main stages of human being. Different colors are used to present the human feelings and emotions in the poem.

 2. Theme: The poetess asks questions to the Indian Weavers in each and every stanza regarding their work and its purpose. She gets reply to her questions too from them. She talks about the three important stages in a man's life such as birth, marriage and death. She relates them to different colors of the garment and different times of the day. The weavers weave a blue cloth for a new born baby in the morning, purple marriage veil for a queen and a white funeral shroud for a dead man in the midnight

3.  Poetic style / Language / Poetic devices used in the poem: The poet uses a number of literary devices to express her ideas like Simile, Alliteration, Imagery and Metaphor. The poem has the rhyme scheme of AABB and consists of three stanzas of four lines each stanza.

4. Special features: The poet has painted the picture of Indian Weavers and used imagery to describe the three stages of human life from birth stage to marital stage and finally towards the death stage by using different colors of the garments. It is a discussion between the poet and the weavers.

5. Message/Morals in the Poem: The weavers labour continuously from morning till night and their attitude affects the kind of work they produce. The poet has linked the stages of man's life with the garments.

6. Your opinion about the poem: It is a very simple poem to understand it. It appeals us so much to give us the message of life stages with the different garments at the different times of the day.