Sarojini Naidus To India James Ee Secondary 3H1 2013 Sarojini Naidus To India 1 4 young through all thy immemorial years Rise Mother rise regenerate ID: 405022
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Analysis of Sarojini Naidu’s ‘To India’
James Ee
Secondary 3H1
2013Slide2
Sarojini Naidu’s ‘To India’ (1 – 4)
young
through all thy immemorial years!Rise, Mother, rise, regenerate from thy gloom,And, like a bride high-mated with the spheres,Beget new glories from thine ageless womb!
Optimism & veneration for motherland
Repetition & alliteration:
forceful
Nation as mother
Nation as
divine, eternal
motherSlide3
Sarojini Naidu’s ‘To India’ (5 – 8)
The nations that in
fettered darkness
weepCrave thee to lead them where great mornings break…Mother, O Mother, wherefore dost thou sleep!Arise and answer for thy children’s sake!Nation: model for other nationsIndependence: light and darkAddressing nation in vocativeNation: slumbering motherSlide4
Sarojini Naidu’s ‘To India’ (9 – 12)
Thy
Future
calls thee with a manifold soundTo crescent honours, splendours, victories vast;Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned,Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.Optimistic future: independence from colonial ruleSense of nation: awakening & slumber Sense of nation: reclaiming former glorySlide5
Discussion of ‘To India’
Sense of nation:
Slumbering
mother: reticent / ignorant to seek independenceFallen sovereign power plundered by colonial ruleFormer model/leader of other coloniesNational identity:Poet: ‘awake’ nation to possibilities of independenceNeed to reclaim cultural heritage and sovereigntySince nation comprises people, poet is calling out to people to reclaim India’s former glory