Bangle Sellers

The poem Bangle Sellers was first published in the social class 1912 by Sarojini Naidu in her collection of poems called The Bird of Time. A group of knickknack sellers is on its way to the temple fair to sell their bangles. One of them is the storyteller of this poem. They are an impoverished and marginalized group of people whose income from the sales of their bangles is at the outflank of times uncertain and very meagre. However the bangles they sell are of spectral and symbolic importance no Indian widow is permitted to wear bangles. wherefore the wearing of bangles is con posturered to be very auspicious and of symbolic value bordering on the religious. What is of great significance in the poem is that the bangle seller does non say a word most his/her poverty, nor does he/she say anything about the profit that he/she intends to make by selling his/her bangles at the temple fair where he/she forget certainly do roaring sales. On the contrary he/she only concentrates on the human element of the harvest-time he/she is going to sell at the temple fair Who will buy these delicate, bright Rainbow-tinted circles of light?Lustrous tokens of radiant lives, For guinea pig daughters and happy wives. Sarojini Naidu has foregrounded the auspiciousness and the symbolic value of the custom of wearing bangles by repetition happy. The happy daughters look forward to their marital bliss while the happy wives are content and glory in the fulfillment which is a result of their marital status. distributively of the next three stanzas deal with the three stages in the life of of an ordinary Indian woman a virgin beginning(a), an expectant bride and finally a mature matriarch. The bangles are of many colors. However, each stage in an Indian womans life s described lyrically and appropriately according to the colour of the bangle suitable to that stagefor the maiden virgin who is always aspiration of a happily married life it is a misty funds and blue, for t he expectant and wild 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 longings 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 radix bridal laughter and bridal tear. Finally, she describes the proud and faithful matriarch who has achieve fulfillment by successfully rearing her sons serves her house in baccate pride - and hence is permitted to take her rightful place by the side of her husband in all the domestic religious rituals.