Sorojini Naidu as a Nationalistic Poet

Sorojini was one of Mother India‘s gifted children. She readily shared the pain of the country, fiercely articulated her agonies and hopes and gallantly strove to redeem the mother and redeem the time. In course of time the patriot exceeded the poet. She occupied some of the highest unofficial and official position in the public life of India. She travelled widely in India and overseas for the cause of India. She became known as one of the best freedom fighters and as one of the front ranking national leaders. She was the first Indian woman to be elected the President of the National Congress. She was imprisoned four times during the freedom struggle. She became the first woman Governor of India’s largest state United Province, after India had own independence. Sorojini Naidu was one of the most talented, colorful and dynamic Indian women of the 19th century. In many of her poems she caught and reproduced in English Indian tradition and the lot of the masses. The poems of her “The Golden Threshold”, “The law of the Threshold”, “The old woman “ and “The Bird of Time” are the forms of resistance and protest against colonialism and modernity both of which were crushing the self respect and autonomy of the common people of India. Her “The Golden Threshold” is a passage to India for the western readers. As a nationalistic poet Sorojini Naidu wanted to introduce her readers not to an earthen India but to a magnificent golden India embellished by her imagination.