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comprising 184 poems which cover a wide range of themes, -
The Golden Threshold; The Bird of Time; The Broken Wing, The
Feather of the Dawn. This paper deals with her “the bird, like
quality of Song”,(3) which is conspicuous in the folk songs.
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Singers’ express the realities of birth, life and death, the basic
passion of love and sorrow, and the rituals of courtship and
worship. We get a sense of folk life and the reader’s emotional
involvement is ensured. They wonder along singing, “All men
are our Kindred, the world is our home.”(5) They sing of
“happy and simple and sorrowful things,”(6) and they go
wherever the voice of thewind calls them. The wandering
singers say: “The voice in praise of Surya, Yaruna, Prithvi and
Brahma in the Harvest Hymn.
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The festival of sea may rightly be called a litany of the
sea, and it expresses complete identification of the fishermen
with the sea which they undress as their “Bountiful Mother”
and invoke her blessings. P.V. Rajaylakshmi observes, “Despite
the political polarization and tension, between the Hindu and
Islamic sides of the Indian personality there has always existed
a synthesis and fusion of their religious and spiritual elements
in the folk culture. In rural India, the Hindu pay homages to
Muslim Saints, while The Muslims exchange gifts and
benedictions with the Hindus on festive occasions. Stepped in
the folk custom and rituals, Sarojini captures the true spirit of
Muslim Folk festivals. The night of Martyrdom is splendid
evocation of the spirit of sacrifice and brotherhood, through
suffering and purification which underlines the Mulslim festival
of Moharrum… The festival has, like the rHoli, Deepvali and
other Indian festivals, the intensities and freedoms of Folk-
dance. It aims at a reintegration of the individual into the total
culture, through a revival of the memories of sacred
history.”(9)
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direct relationship between the folk for the mother and the
sacramental ecstasy induced by group workship”10.
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are not out-moded but rather figures who have emerged from
the folk life to find a place in her creative undertakings.
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liaisons, secret lryst with lovers and lost causes in romance are
nurtured. In the poem, the folk heroine is presented in search
of her lover, terrified by her own daring but goaded on by
indomitable instinct to defy all obstacles. She evokes the gods
of the wood and the river that fill the lonely spaces of the rural
wilderness ‘Vilale Portrayal of Indian folk songs. Sarojini Naidu
left no aspect of folk life untouched. It has been observed by
Srinivasa Iyenger:
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