SAROJINI NAIDU'S COROMANDEL FISHERS

INTRODUCTION:

          Sarojini Naidu was born in  Bengali Hindu family at Hyderabad. She was educated in Cambridge, London. She was an Indian Independence activist and a poetess. She was the follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Her poems were written for children and her poems praised the nature, nation. Her poems are filled with patriotism. She also wrote poems on Love and Death. She became the president of Indian National Congress. She was the first woman to be appointed as Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She is known as the Nightingale of India.

COROMANDEL FISHERS:

          Coromandel fishers is a poem that focuses on the fishermen. Sarojini Naidu motivates the people through this poem. Though the poem is written for the fishermen, it metaphorically focuses on the Indian people. The poetess urges the people to hasten their freedom struggle. Her lines such as “Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free” , “ No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull’s call” are motivational.

RISE BROTHERS RISE:

          The poet asks the fishermen to rise in the morning light. The sky prays to the morning light. The poet portrays that the wind sleeps in the arms of the dawn. She compares the wind to a child. Like a child the wind cried all the night and sleeps during the morning. The speaker calls the fishermen to gather their nets from  the shore. They have to set their catamarans free. The fishermen have to capture the wealth of the sea. They are the kings of the sea.

POETESS’S ADVICE:

          The poetess advices not to delay their voyage. She asks the fishermen to track the seagull’s call. She says that the sea is their mother, the cloud is their brother, the waves are their comrades. The fishermen toss at the fall of the sun. The poetess quest ions about the return of the fishermen. The hand of the Sea-god drives at the Sunset. The person who holds the storm by the hair will hide the fishermen’s lives in his breast.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NATURE:

          The poetess wonders on the sweetness of the conclave glade and the sweet scent of the  mango grove. The sands appears sweet at the full of the moon. The sounds of the voices they love  make them happy. The poetess tells them about the kiss of the spray and the wild foam’s glee. She asks them to row their boat to the verge where the low sky joins the sea. She wants the fishermen to explore till the sea’s end.

CONCLUSION:

          Thus Coromandel fishers is an appraisal poem. Sarojini Naidu celebrates the fishermen’s life. The poetess motivates the people to work free. Through this poem, she has intiated the feel to protest for  the freedom struggle. She concludes the poem with these lines “Row, brothers, row to the edge of the  verge, where the low sky mates with the sea”.