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The poem "The Gift of India" by Sarojini Naidu describes the gifts that India has given to other countries. It refers to India's agricultural resources like grain and priceless metals that foreign colonizers took back to their own lands. It also mentions the Indian soldier sons that India sent to foreign lands to fight in World Wars for other nations. The poem is patriotic in nature as it describes the sacrifices made by India for the British cause, including the lives of Indian soldiers who fought and died while under British rule. The poem appeals to honor the sacrifices made by Indian soldiers for the British cause during the wars.

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11 English 6.5.2020

The poem "The Gift of India" by Sarojini Naidu describes the gifts that India has given to other countries. It refers to India's agricultural resources like grain and priceless metals that foreign colonizers took back to their own lands. It also mentions the Indian soldier sons that India sent to foreign lands to fight in World Wars for other nations. The poem is patriotic in nature as it describes the sacrifices made by India for the British cause, including the lives of Indian soldiers who fought and died while under British rule. The poem appeals to honor the sacrifices made by Indian soldiers for the British cause during the wars.

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Poem- The gift of India

Questions/ Answers

1. What gifts did mother India give to the world as told in the
poem “the Gift of India” by the Sarojini Naidu?

ANSWER: as mentioned in Naidu’s poems, the rich gifts that


mother India gave the world are the raiment, grain and gold. This
refers to all the resources from agricultural productions to
priceless metals which the foreign colonisers took to their country
while they were ruling India. She also mentions her soldier sons
whom she had sent to foreign lands to fight for others in the
world wars.

2. “The gift of India” is a patriotic poem. It describes the sacrifice


of India for British cause. Explain.

Answer: sarojini Naidu’s always tried to arouse a sense of pride


and patriotism in the hearts of her countrymen through her
poems. In the present poem “the gifts of India”, the poetess
reminds the world of India’s gifts to the colonial forces that ruled
it. In the poem, mother India herself proclaims proundly her gifts
to the west. The first stanza introduces the various gifts India has
bestowed upon the colonisers, which include both its riches and
people. The second stanza focuses more on the wistful state of
martyred Indian soldiers. The third stanza talks of the grief those
deaths have brought to mother India. And finally, the fourth
stanza is a sort of appeal to honour the sacrifices of the Indian
soldiers for the cause of the war, rather for the British cause. So
the thematically, the poem is highly patriotic.

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