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The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu: About the poem

Written by the prominent Indian poet and politician Sarojini Naidu, ‘The Bangle Sellers‘ is a poem exploring the life of Indian women, the Indian culture and traditions revolving around women. In most of her poems, Sarojini Naidu writes on the theme of Indian culture and people. Her poems are focused on Indian settings and this poem makes no exception. In its Indianness, the poem resembles another poem of hers, In the Bazaars of Hyderabad.

Extract-1

(i) The bangle sellers are going to the temple for the fair, which is being held over there. They are happy and contended, despite the heavy load of various bangles of multiple designs and colors, on their shoulders.

(ii) "Rainbow-tinted circles of light" is referred to the bangles of different colors in the rainbow. This is a type of metaphor for describing the physical appearance of the bangles, and their beauty.

(iii) These bangles are made for women to wear. The poet has repeated the word 'happy' in the last lines, so as to give a human emphasis on the bangles, as they are worn by women throughout their life.

(iv) The colors of bangles which are preferred by virgin maidens are silver and blue, or pink. These colors are preferred by them as these colors represent the stage of maidenhood, of a woman's life.

(v) The rhyme scheme followed in the poem, in each stanza, is "aabbcc", which is couplet form and is mainly responsible for the melodious effect and fast rhythm.

Extract-2

(i) The narrator is the bangle sellers. The thing that was described earlier, was that wives and daughters wear different types of bangles, as each color, describes their emotions and, their life.

(ii) 'The mountain mist' expression is used to describe the white, and misty bangles, which express the white color, that represents the mountain's mist.

(iii) The poet describes the red bangles as buds that bloom on the calm surface of a forest stream, as they are red in color.

(iv) These lines mean that some bangles are shining green and that their green color makes them represent the freshness of a newborn, tender leaf of a plant. He says that these bangles are meant for the girls, that are not married.

(v) The poet says that the silver, blue, red, white bangles are meant for the virgin girls, who have longings of married life.

EXTRACT-3

(i) The bangles preferred by virgin maidens are blue, silver, white, red and pink colored bangles, as these types of bangles represent their countless longings of married life.

(ii) The bride prefers the yellow coloured bangles for her wedding morning as these bangles are just like the yellow colored, and also are shining, and light, and make a light ringing sound representing their laugh, or tears.

(iii) The red colored bangles are compared to the flame of the bride's marriage fire as they are red-colored, and red is a fierce color and represents fire and passion.

(iv) The literary device used in the last two lines are the yellow colored bangles, which are shining, and light, produce a light ringing sound when struck, and these bangles represent the laughter, and tears of a bride.

(v) The poet refers to the two words simultaneously, as the bride is happy, as she is getting married, and also sad as she will miss her parents too. The poet emphasizes

these two words, as these are the emotions that the bride goes through, on her wedding morning.