Analysis of Pantheism in the Selected Poems of Sarojini Naidu through Poetic Techniques

Abstract

Indian English Literature brims with many great poetesses and one cannot deny the supreme position of Sarojini Naidu as a poetess in Indian writing in English. Every individual cannot pass through his school education without getting the taste of Sarojini Naidu’s poetry. It is a pleasure to read her poems. Several positive criticisms has been given to her poems and this paper ventures to trace the theme of Pantheism through poetic techniques in the selected poems of Sarojini Naidu which has not been much prescribed in the school or college education. Through this attempt the other aspect of Sarojini Naidu poems will be brought into the limelight. The poems were selected from The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) edited by Vinayak Krishna Gokak and published by Sahitya Akademi in 1983. The poems selected for the study are “Summer Woods”, “If You Call Me”, “Caprice”, “Songs of Radha Kanhaya”, and “Songs of Radha the Quest”.