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    Summary of "Coromondel Fishers": Literary Devices

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    The poem "Coromandel Fishers" describes the daily life and routines of fishermen along the Coromandel Coast of India. It uses personification and similes to portray the fishermen's close relationship with nature and depicts the sea, clouds, and waves as their family. While the poet appears to capture folk culture, she is actually calling people to rise up and fight for India's independence from British rule. The poem has three stanzas with an AABB rhyme scheme and urges the fishermen to embrace the infinite possibilities of the sea rather than temporary pleasures on land.

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    The poem "Coromandel Fishers" describes the daily life and routines of fishermen along the Coromandel Coast of India. It uses personification and similes to portray the fishermen's close relationship with nature and depicts the sea, clouds, and waves as their family. While the poet appears to capture folk culture, she is actually calling people to rise up and fight for India's independence from British rule. The poem has three stanzas with an AABB rhyme scheme and urges the fishermen to embrace the infinite possibilities of the sea rather than temporary pleasures on land.

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    The poem "Coromandel Fishers" describes the daily life and routines of fishermen along the Coromandel Coast of India. It uses personification and similes to portray the fishermen's close relationship with nature and depicts the sea, clouds, and waves as their family. While the poet appears to capture folk culture, she is actually calling people to rise up and fight for India's independence from British rule. The poem has three stanzas with an AABB rhyme scheme and urges the fishermen to embrace the infinite possibilities of the sea rather than temporary pleasures on land.

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    Summary of "Coromondel Fishers": Literary Devices

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    The poem "Coromandel Fishers" describes the daily life and routines of fishermen along the Coromandel Coast of India. It uses personification and similes to portray the fishermen's close relationship with nature and depicts the sea, clouds, and waves as their family. While the poet appears to capture folk culture, she is actually calling people to rise up and fight for India's independence from British rule. The poem has three stanzas with an AABB rhyme scheme and urges the fishermen to embrace the infinite possibilities of the sea rather than temporary pleasures on land.

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    Summary of "Coromondel Fishers"

    Literary Devices:

    1. The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
    This is a simile. Here, the wind is being compared to a child asleep in the arms of its mother (the
    dawn) after crying all night.
    2. Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
    This is an example of personification. Here the sky is said to be wakening as if it has been
    sleeping the entire night like a living being.

    Literary term:

    The spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;


    Here, the waves are being imagined as dancers dancing with unrestrained joy.
    The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
    This is a metaphor. Here, the sea, the cloud and waves are compared to the mother, brother and
    companions.

    Structure:

    The poem consists of three stanzas having four lines each. The rhyme scheme of the
    poem is AABB.

    Coromandel fishers refer to the fishermen on the Coromandel Coast of South India.The poem
    Coromandel Fishers, appears to be describing the fishermen and their daily routine; but it is
    actually a call to awaken the people of India to come, fight for the freedom of their nation from
    the Britishers.
    Sarojini Naidu in the poem. The Coromandel Fishers has described the beauty of nature and the
    folk culture of the Coromandel Coast of India. It depicts the relationship of fishermen with
    nature. Nature stands as a symbol of beauty that expresses the optimistic view of life.
    Explanation:

    In stanza 1, the poet asks the fishermen to "Rise" as the day is about to appear. She says that the
    sky which was sleeping in the night has woken up and is welcoming the light. Here the poet uses
    personification by using wakening (a human activity) for the sky (a non-living thing).Next, she
    says that the sea-wind that leads to the storm is now calm because of the morning which is
    about to come.Thus the wind is just like the child which kept crying throughout the night and now
    he is quiet. Here the poet uses Simile to compare now calm wind with a child.In the 3rd line, the
    poet asks the fishermen to collect their nets from the sea-shores and take their boats because
    the tide is full of wealth (fishes, sea-gulls etc) and they are the kings. They just need to go to the
    sea to capture the wealth that is theirs. Hence they should hurry.

    In stanza 2, the poet asks the fishermen to do everything fast. The gull's call is a symbol used to
    depict that morning is near. The poet calls sea as their mother, cloud as brother and sea waves as
    their comrades i.e. companions. Here again, the poet uses personification. Sea is considered the
    mother because it feeds them and helps them to sustain their life.Similarly, clouds are their
    brothers because they guide the fishermen while the waves are companions because they keep
    moving with them. The poet thus wants to say that they all are family and help each other.She
    urges other not fear because even if they could not return back by the sunset, the sea-god which
    according to her, holds the sea-storm by the hair will save them.

    In the final stanza, the poet says that the shade of the coconut glade, the scent of mango groove
    and the sands at the O' the moon with the sound of the voices they love are sweet and enjoyable
    but these joys are temporary. Rather they should go for the kiss of the spray ie, the water drops
    falling on the face while in the sea and the dance of the foam's glee, the foam which forms by the
    up-down movement of the tides which according to the poet are sweeter and work-struggling.
    In the last line, she asks the fishermen to depart for the point in the sea where the sun meets the
    sky i.e. horizon. Symbolically it refers to infinity or a place without end. In this perspective, she
    asks the fishermen to dive into the infinite sea.

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