Analysis of Indain Dancers By Sarojini Naidu

Indian Dancers By Sarojini Naidu

The poem โ€œIndian Dancersโ€ portrays the vivid and enchanting picture of beautiful Indian dancers with โ€œhouri-like facesโ€, their โ€œeyes ravished with raptureโ€ and โ€œpassionate bosoms aflaming with fireโ€. Dressed in โ€œglittering garments of purpleโ€, they treadโ€ their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet โ€œwhile dancing in accompaniment with โ€œentrancing โ€œstrain of keen musicโ€.

The aesthetics of Sarojini Naidu (Indian aesthetics) are clearly seen in the poem โ€˜Indian Dancers.โ€™ The overabundance of lush and over-ripe imagery reflects every meaning. The Orient is painted to create the narcotic or opiate mood through extravagant sensuality. This aesthetic is supported in Naiduโ€™s time by feudal luxury, which is declining.

The beautiful and rhythmic physical movement of the performers in the poem โ€˜Indian Dancersโ€™ throws light on another important aspect of community life. In a group performance, each of the artists contributes to it in equal measure but without retaining her individual identity. This is a case of the individual self-merging into the whole for the larger benefit of the society. Again, the performers might be belonging to different social or economic classes or to different castes and creeds. In the perspective of human relationship, the lyric can be perceived as a record of unity in diversity.

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In Sarojini Naiduโ€™s poetry, the spirit of Indianness is shown in varied colours and contours. She followed the footsteps of Toru Dutt, Aurobindo and Tagore and explored Indiaโ€™s rich ancient heritage and rural Indiaโ€™s folk culture, prompting her to differentiate Indian mythology, customs, manners, festivals and thus to generate pride among colonised Indians and reaffirm their national identity.

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