Sarojini Naidu as a Writer of Love-Lyrics
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Sarojini Naidu is a writer of lyrics which have beauty and charm, delicate fancy and gossamer imagination, emotional fervour and sensuo-usness. Her poems reveal her sex. Talking of them, Arthur Symons wrote, "It is for this bird-like quality of song that they are to be valued". More than one third of bulk of her poetry is devoted to a lyrical presentation of the bliss of love and pathos of separation. Some of her typical love-lyrics are Ecstasy, Song of Radha, The Milk Maid, A Persian Love-Song, In a Time of Flowers, Humayun to Zobeida, Devotion etc. In the poem Alabaster she gives us a clear description of her heart:
Like this alabaster box whose art is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart, carven with delicate dreams and wrought with many a subtle and exquisite thought. Therein I treasure the spice and scent of rich and passionate memories blent like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove, of song and sorrow and life and love,
(Alabaster p. 24)
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