Study of Sarojini Naidu’s poetry from ecological perspective PDF

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Sarojini Naidu, often known as The Nightingale of India, was an Indian freedom campaigner and poet who was born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay. She attempted to explain how ecological aspects are crucial for nature's balance.
She is a good observer of Nature's innate aestheticism. 'Crimson gulmohar...

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Study of Sarojini Naidu’s poetry from ecological perspective Sarojini Naidu as a Poet: Sarojini Naidu, often known as The Nightingale of India, was an Indian freedom campaigner and poet who was born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay. She attempted to explain how ecological aspects are crucial for nature's balance. She is a good observer of Nature's innate aestheticism. 'Crimson gulmohars,' 'Champa boughs,' 'lotus blooms,' cassia forests, and other vivid Indian landscapes 'Tamarind-boughs,' with their untamed forests and many animals and birds, 'water-lily pools,' rivers, and hills ecstatically enchant her. 'A object of beauty is a joy forever,' she says. She is enthralled by the amazing and vibrant nature's sights, sounds, colours, and fragrances. "She has a good sense of observation, and her acute sensibility reacts to natural sense perceptions more emotionally than logically" . "Village Song" is an escape from the mundane realities of life. Nature provides her with a kind of respite from the stresses of everyday life. The poem's female kid appears to be "disgusted by the false shows and pompous claims, the fever and fret of life" around her, and she "finds calm and delights in the sanctuary of Nature". As she tells her mother, "O mother mine!" she appears charmed by the wonderful realm of fairies and nature. I'm going to the wild forest. The Champa buds are blowing, and the Champa boughs are blowing. To the koel-hunted river – isles glistening with lotus flowers The voices of the fairies are calling to me, so pay attention!

Her poems on Ecological subject: Sarojini Naidu's poem "The Bird Sanctuary" conveys the pleasant idea of various types of birds living harmoniously in a sanctuary. The refuge is home to a variety of colourful species, including kingfishers, gulls, pigeons, and parrots. She depicts the bird sanctuary as a pleasant and friendly area where all kinds of birds can fly around freely and happily. The author asks the fisherman in her poem "The Coromandel Fisherman" to accomplish everything quickly. The gull's call is a symbol that daybreak is approaching. The poet refers to the sea as their mother, the cloud as their brother, and the sea waves as their buddies. Because it feeds them and helps them to survive, the sea is referred to as the mother.

Because they keep travelling with them, they are companions. As a result, the poet wishes to convey that they are all family members that aid one another. The shade of the coconut glade, the aroma of mango groove, and the dunes at the edge of the moon with the sound of the voices they love are lovely and enjoyable, according to the poet, but these pleasures are fleeting. Some of Sarojini's best nature poetry can be found in The Songs of Springtime. She glides joy inebriated in her spring garden and the magnificent Indian scenery imposes a spell on her. Her songs of the season carried the colour, tone, warmth, and lusciousness of spring. The majesty of Indian trees and flowers, the growing feeling of mystery that resides in Indian colours and sounds, and the unmistakable connection of a man with Mother Nature are all easily detectable sensations of Sarojini's nature poetry.

Sarojini is enthralled by nature's beauty and intensity, but she is unconcerned about any divine spirit lurking beneath the vastness of the natural world. She finds calm in nature's shelter, away from the heat and exhaustion, the applause and prayers of men. She'd do it.

Characteristics of her poems: She'd like to disappear into the swirl of nature's bounty and reappear as a moonbeam, a delicate blossom, or a gurgling stream. Several of her writings capture the joy and ecstasy of that romantic adoration of nature. Sarojini Naidu compares time to a bird in her poem "The Bird of Time." The bird sings about grandeur, gladness, sufferings, and the rhythmic joy of spring, as well as hope for the future, faith in eternal peace, and death, which she refers to as "mystic quiet." She is conversing with the bird to learn how it learnt to sing about all of the above things in the forest where the wind blows, in the waves where the wind splits the stream, in the birth of a new bride, and in the spring. She also claims that the morning is for God's prayer and the night is for repose. The poem 'Spring' depicts a wide range of circumstances that occur during the Spring season. During that time, the branches of the Banyan trees have a green tint since they are armed with newly produced leaves. Honey-birds are attracted to the scent of flowering figs and come to collect honey from them. Poppies have a gold colour with a hint of transparency, aloe has a silvery hue, and lilies have ivory and coral hues. To soothe themselves, the kingfishers ruffle their wings on the sedge. Butterflies flutter among the wild-rose bushes. The hills have a blue hue to them, and they echo with the sound of trickling from people on their way

to worship after hearing the temple bell. The music is raised by the air passing through the bamboo hedges, as if it were coming from Krishna's flute. When Hindu farmers pray to the rain deity Indra for rain, the hymn 'Hymn to Indra, Lord of Rain' is written. Hindus believe that rain, thunder, and lightning are brought about by Indra's favour. As a result, this poem is written as the villagers pray to Indra for rain to help them with their farming. Farmers pray to Indra to create thunder, which is characterised as His voice, to awaken the storm from its slumber, which has the power to destroy mountains and split sea waves. Indra is the one who creates rivers and streams. They pass through forest and plain lands that are used for agriculture. He is omnipotent and wields supreme power over the earth and sky, bringing delight to the Eagles and teaching the young Koel to fly. He assists everyone as and when he requires His assistance or suffers. He loves everyone and protects them from sorrows and grief. As a result, they yield to him and request that he not leave them without rain.

Nature as an intact subject matter: Sarojini emphasises her longing to be alone with nature in the poem 'Solitude,' which brings her calm and joy. She wants to go away from the crowds, which are always full of commotion and quarrels, and go to regions where nature dwells in the shape of a valley and glades, where the heavenly twilight calls the impatient, and the riverside, where the rivers are shaded by gold by the trees. Clouds that bring comfort to one's broken heart. These locations inspire hope and peace for the future. She also wants to climb up the rock face to the green ledges. She wants to rest beneath the palm tree, where the sedges, which reflect the

stars, stir exquisite dreams. She is able to be in God's infinite bosom using these approaches. She's looking for a way to escape the boredom of her life and the mechanical pattern she's stuck in.

Medley is a Kashmiri song about the natural world. In this poetry, natural scenes are contrasted with human activities. The poppy plant grows on the roof of the house, and the Irish flowers grow on the tomb, symbolising optimism in a lover's heart about his marriage to his darling, and terror in a slave's heart about death. As doubt and pain in a persistent heart and faith in a serene heart, the opal lies in the river and the pearl in the sea. Fireflies dance in the moonlight, and peach leaves flutter in the breeze, like delight in the eyes of youngsters who have no concept of good and wrong, and peace in the afterlife.

Sarojini Naidu's natural poetry is deserving of all respect. Nature serves as a backdrop for her depictions of human emotion. But in Sarojini Naidu's poetry, the joy of the heart that awakens at the sight of the world's beauty is brilliantly conveyed in words that thrill with a passion for happiness. Sarojini Naidu's interpretation of nature is coloured with her romanticism. She lacked the spirituality of Tagore or Sri Aurobindo in her love of nature. Her nature poetry is a colourful, auditory, and olfactory tapestry reminiscent of Tennyson and the PreRaphaelites. In her nature poetry, the diverse components of nature are so elegantly linked. There is a touch of melancholy and pain in poems like The Coming of Spring. The poet becomes painfully aware of the evanescence of life and beauty as he observes the objects in nature at various stages of birth, growth,

and death. Sarojini's poetry demonstrates how she associates her sentiments of delight with natural scenes and her grief with her earthly life.

Conclusion: Until the stars begin to shine, the sights and sounds of the countryside, both wild nature and human life, are portrayed. Nothing, not even 'the shimmering red of a bridal robe' or 'the deep crimson of wild bird's wings', can compare to their rich hue. In this way, all ecological factors have a role in maintaining nature's balance. The natural atmosphere has been depicted in these poems using metaphorical language. The poem 'Radha' demonstrates that the God who pervades Nature is found only in the human heart....