Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The Bird Sanctuary – Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu-Poetess
The Bird Sanctuary – Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu is a well-known freedom fighter. She advocated women’s liberation. She is called as ‘the Nightingale of India' for her poetry’s musical quality and rhythm.

In her poem, the Bird Sanctuary, she describes a garden full of several kinds of birds. The birds welcome dawn making different types of sounds. Birds having various colors such as amber and ebony, birds like bulbul, oriel, honey bird and shama are moving on the trees. The trees are full of nectar and dew.

Silver colored gulls are flying in the sky. Kingfisher and hoopoe birds are in sapphire blue and bronze colors.  Grey pigeons are building homes on tree tops with banyan twigs. The jade green gypsy parrots are enjoying red ripe fig fruits.


The poet says that God’s wonderful garden has space for every bird. She prays God to provide safe resting place for distressed or wounded homing birds. She symbolizes birds to all living creatures and bird sanctuary to earth wonderfully.

8 comments:

  1. This poem is a lovely representation of how humans are. I love how she meticulously compares all birds with human nature. Splendid poem indeed :-)

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  2. Simply and easy answer

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  3. Simply and very easy answer aweresome

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  4. Supper and very short story soo reading and writing is very well

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  5. there is bit of sadness in contemplation on birds' happiness. Its expressed in the end to room the broken homing birds in the birds of sanctuary.

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