coromandal fishers
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Coromandal FishersTRANSCRIPT
K T C T COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATIONKADUVAYIL
TOTTAKADU P O KALLAMBALAM
Name of the Teacher : Resmi O R
Subject : English
Reg. No. : 13369008
Standard : VIII
Unit : On the Wings of Wishes
Topic : COROMANDAL FISHERS
Time : 45 min
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu was born in February 1879 in
Hyderabad. Her first collection of poems
titled ‘Golden Threshold’ was published in
1905. Her poems are in English, but have an
Indian soul. She passed away in march
1949.
Do you like sea?Do you like to interact with fishermen?
‘Coromandal Fishers is a poem by Sarojini Naidu.
In this poem ‘The Nightingale of India’ gives us a
vivid picture of the lives of fishermen. Beautiful
dreams of the seas make their life beautiful.
COROMANDAL FISHERS
READ MERise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to the morning light,The wind lies asleep in the arms of the draw like a child that has cried all nightCome, Let us gather our nets from the shore, andSet our catamarans free,To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
We are the sons of the seal.No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the seagull’s callThe 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 whereThe hard of the sea-god drives?He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.Sweet is the shade of the coconut glade and the silent 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 blue of the verge, wherethe low sky mates with the sea
•Who is the writer of the poem?•Who is the speaker of the poem?•What is the leaping wealth of the tide?•What is the wind compared to?
•Sarojini Naidu•The fisherman•Fishes•a child that has cried all night
Follow up Activities
•Find out the simile in the poem?•Find out the rhyming words in the poem?