1. COROMANDAL FISHERS
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to
the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn
like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and
set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the kings of the sea!
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2. No longer delay, let us hasten away in the
track
of the sea gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our
brother,
the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun
where
the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide
in
his breast our lives.
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3. Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade,
and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon
with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the
spray
and the dance of the wild foam's glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the
verge, where
the low sky mates with the sea.
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4. Sarojini Naidu in Bombay (now Mumbai), 1946
Sarojini Chattopadhyaya
13 February 1879
Born
Hyderabad, Hyderabad State,
India
2 March 1949 (aged 70)
Died
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation Poet, writer, social activist
Nationality Indian Bengali
King's College London
Alma mater
Girton College, Cambridge
Spouse(s) Dr. Muthyala Govindarajulu
Jayasurya, Padmaja,
Children Randheer, Nilawar and
Leelamani
Signature
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5. Sarojini Naidu says that the sun has risen and it looks as if
the sky is praying to the sun,
there is no wind and the second line is a simile.
the poet says that the narrator is calling out to his
colleagues
who catch fish, to start their day. They call themselves the
king of the sea
The seagull is an animal that knows where the fish are,
so the fishermen follow them.
the poet also describes the scenery as close friends and
family.
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6. The sea god is the controller of the sea
(Poseidon in Greek mythology)
the sea god will protect them.
In the next Para Sarojini Naidu describes that
the fishermen like the land as well
but the waves and the foam of the sea
is more calling to them.
The poet,in the last line says that
the sun is setting and it is time to go back to land.
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7. Let us gather our nets from the shore
Child that has cried all night
Set our Catamarans free Leaping wealth of the tide
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8. We are the sons of the Sea Leaping the wealth of the sea
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