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Unit 10: Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu

10.6 Review Questions Notes

1. Which stage of life does the poet refer to in the first stanza?
2. Describe the type of cloth woven by the weavers, as mentioned in the first stanza.
3. Do you think there is a specific reason why the weavers have woven the marriage veils
of the queen in purple colour?
4. Why are the weavers described as ‘solemn and still’ in the third stanza?
5. What is the significance of the white colour of a shroud?
6. The poem refers to three different stages of a person’s life. What is typical of each of
these stages?
7. Do you think that the weavers are hardworking people?
8. Explain the following expressions:
(a) a halcyon wild

(b) fall of night
(c) funeral shroud

Answers: Self Assessment

weavers, cloth, morning, night, cheerful/gay, blue, night,

wedding dress, peacock, serious, shroud, feather, clouds.

10.7 Further Readings

Books “The Biography of Sarojini Naidu”. Poem Hunter. Naravane, Vishwanath S. (1996).
Sarojini Naidu : An introduction to her life, work and poetry ([Reprinted] ed.). New
Delhi: Orient Longman..
“Indian Weavers”. Poem Hunter. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/indian-weavers/
. Retrieved 25 March 2012.

“About Sarojini Naidu”. Sarojini Naidu Government Girls Postgraduate (Autonomous)
College Website. Centre for Research and Industrial Staff Performance.

Online links www.w3.org/WAI/eval/considerations.html

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