Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu
WEAVERS, weaving at break of day,Why do you weave a garment so gay?...
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,
We weave the robes of a new-born child.
Weavers, weaving at fall of night,
Why do you weave a garment so bright?...
Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green,
We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.
Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the moonlight chill?...
White as a feather and white as a cloud,
We weave a dead man's funeral shroud.
Sarojini Naidu
At school, I was a textbook fan of Sarojini Naidu. I remember three of her poems from my school textbooks - the above quoted, "Palanquin Bearers" and "Bazaars of Hyderabad". Her writing is intensely Indian, and her words reflect the richness of medieval and post-medieval Indian culture. But, as I grew older - she started sounding a bit amateurish to me or perhaps just a bit shallow - but I later felt that can just be my prejudice from reading too much from the occident. Oriental poetry (Haiku for example), always revels in bringing out beauty and richness and the underlying message is very simple and subtle and sometimes just not there. For poetry in these parts is a medium of celebration and rarely of dissonance. The above - is almost a nursery rhyme that you can teach your kids - and still graceful, symbolic and subtly melancholy.
posted by Woodworm @ 9:01 AM
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this poem rocks!
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