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Presented By : Raman
(Computer Faculty)
SGAD Govt. Girls Sec School, Tarn Taran
About the Author
Sarojini Naidu was born into a Bengali
Brahmin family in Hyderabad, India. With
her father a scientist and her mother a poet,
she grew up surrounded by artists,
intellectuals, and revolutionaries. Her
published poetic works include The Golden
Threshold (1905), The Bird of Time (1912),
The Broken Wing (1917), Selected Poems
(1930), The Sceptred Flute (1937, with Sarojini Naidu
introduction by Joseph Auslander), and The (1879-1949)
Feather of the Dawn (1961).
About the Poem
This poem describes the weavers weaving garments of
different types. They weave garments of a new born
baby. They also weave marriage veils of a queen. On
cold moonlights they weave white garments.
Explanation
Stanza I
Weavers, weaving at break of day1
Poet says that weavers are busy weaving garment at day break.
Why do you weave a garment2 so gay3?
Poetess asks the weavers about the garment.
Blue as the wing of halcyon4 wild
The garment is blue and looks beautiful.
We weave the robes5 of a new born child
The weavers tell her that they are weaving a garment of a new born
baby. They relate it to the start of the life.
She finds that the weavers are working on a beautiful and bright garment. It has a
magic colors
We weave the marriage veils2 of a queen
Weavers tell her that they are weaving a marriage veil of a queen.
This phrase suggests the second phase of life
1. wings 2. Cover
Stanza III
Weavers, weaving solemn1 and still
Here weavers are weaving a garment in a silent and serious way.
What do you weave in the moonlight chill2?
On asking weavers tell the poetess that they are weaving a cloth to
cover the body of a dead man.This phrase shows the third phase of
the life.