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Bangle SellersPresentation by:
CVVMMK DhavejiSchool Assistant ScienceTaylor High School Narsapur 534275Andhra [email protected]
Bangle Sellers
Sarojani Naidu
The poem "Bangle Sellers"
was first published in the year 1912 by Sarojani
Naidu in her collection of poems called
"The Bird of Time."
The wearing of bangles is considered to be very auspicious
and of symbolic value bordering on
the religious.
Bangle sellers are we who bearOur shining loads to the temple fair...Who will buy these delicate, brightRainbow-tinted circles of light?Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,For happy daughters and happy wives.
Some are meet for a maiden's wrist,Silver and blue as the mountain mist,Some are flushed like the buds that dreamOn the tranquil brow of a woodland stream,Some are aglow with the bloom that cleavesTo the limpid glory of new born leaves
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,Tinkling, luminous, tender, and clear,Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear.
Some are purple and gold flecked greyFor she who has journeyed through life midway,Whose hands have cherished, whose love has blest,And cradled fair sons on her faithful breast,And serves her household in fruitful pride,And worships the Gods at her husband's side.
Bangle Sellers
Bangle sellers are we who bearOur shining loads to the temple fair...
We are Bangle sellers and we carry heaps (lots) of shining bangles to
the temple fair...
Heaps of Bangles
Lots of Bangles
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Rainbow-shaded circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,For happy daughters and happy wives
Shiny symbols of happy lives,For happy daughters and happy wives
Some are meet for a maiden's wrist,
Some bangles suit for the girl’s wrists
Silver and blue as the mountain mist,
Some are flushed like the buds that dream
Some are rosy like the buds that dream….
On the tranquil
brow of a woodland
stream
…on the peaceful ridge of a woodland stream
Some are aglow with the bloom that cleavesTo the limpid glory of
new born leaves
Some are bright with the
colouration that cuts
to the transparent
beauty of new born leaves
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,
Some are like Sunny corn
fields,
Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,
Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,
Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,
Tinkling, luminous, tender, and clear,
Like her bridal laughter
and bridal tear.
Some are purple and gold flecked
grey
For she who has journey
ed through
life midway,
Middle aged woman,
Whose hands have
cherished, whose love has
blest,
And cradled fair sons on her faithful breast,
And serves her household in fruitful
pride,
who has attained fulfilment by successfully rearing her
sons
And serves
her househol
d in fruitful pride,
who has attained fulfilment by successfully rearing her sons
And worships the Gods at her husband's side.
Sarojini Naidu has foregrounded the auspiciousness
and the symbolic value of the
custom of wearing bangles by
repeating "happy."
The 'happy' daughters look forward to their
marital bliss while the 'happy'
wives are content and glory in
the fulfilment which is a result
of their marital status.
Each of the next three stanzas deal with the three stages in the life of an average Indian woman - a virgin maiden, an expectant bride and finally a mature matriarch.
The bangles are of many colours. However, each stage in an Indian
woman's life is described lyrically and
appropriately according to the colour of the bangle suitable to
that stage:
for the maiden virgin who is always dreaming of a happily married life it is a misty silver and blue,
for the expectant and passionate bride it is a golden yellow, and for the mature matriarch it is a "purple and gold flecked grey."
Similarly Sarojini Naidu very
poetically describes the desires of an
Indian woman according to each stage of her life:
the virgin maiden is carrying in her heart countless dreams of
her future married life and she is compared to a "bud that dreams."
The young bride is described as brimming over with passionate desire although she is nervous about what the future holds for
her as she leaves her parental home -
"bridal laughter and bridal tear."
Finally, she describes the proud and faithful matriarch who has
attained fulfilment by successfully rearing her sons - "serves her house
in fruitful pride -"
and hence is permitted to take her rightful place by the side of her husband
in all the domestic religious rituals