Bangle Sellers

The poem Bangle Sellers was first published in the year 1912 by Sarojini Naidu in her collection of poems called The Bird of Time. A group of bangle sellers is on its panache to the temple fair to sell their bangles. One of them is the narrator of this poem. They are an impoverished and marginalized group of people whose income from the gross revenue of their bangles is at the best of times uncertain and very meagre. However the bangles they sell are of religious and emblematic importance no Indian widow is permitted to wear bangles.Hence the wearing of bangles is considered to be very kindly and of symbolic value bordering on the religious. What is of great significance in the poem is that the bangle seller does not say a word about his/her poverty, nor does he/she say anything about the profit that he/she intends to put one across by selling his/her bangles at the temple fair where he/she will certainly do well-situated sales. On the contrary he/she only concentrates on the h uman element of the product he/she is passage to sell at the temple fair Who will buy these delicate, bright Rainbow-tinted circles of light?Lustrous tokens of glad lives, For happy daughters and happy wives. Sarojini Naidu has foregrounded the auspiciousness and the symbolic value of the custom of wearing bangles by repeating happy. The happy daughters impression forward to their marital bliss while the happy wives are content and glory in the fulfillment which is a result of their marital status. Each of the next three stanzas deal with the three stages in the life of of an just Indian womanhood a virgin maiden, an expectant bride and finally a maturate matriarch. The bangles are of numerous colors. However, each stage in an Indian womans life s described lyrically and appropriately fit to the colour of the bangle suitable to that stagefor the maiden virgin who is always dreaming of a blithely married life it is a misty silver and blue, for the expectant and fanatical 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 day 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 adoption laughter and bridal tear. Finally, she describes the proud and faithful matriarch who has attained fulfillment 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.