Coromandal fishers

PPT

1. F ATHIMA MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE PALLIMUKKU, KOLLAM

2. POWER POINT PRESENTATION by SEEMA S DEV ENGLISH OPTION Candidate code:13352023

3. Coromandal Fishers By Sarojini Naidu

4. Rise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to t he morning light, The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn Like a child that has cried all night. Come, let us gather our nets from the shore, and s et our catamarans free, To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for w e are the sons of the sea!

5. PROFILE 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. The Indian Freedom struggle was the heart and soul of her work. After the independence she became the first governor of Utter Pradesh. She passed away in March 1949 .

6. POETIC DEVICES Personification – When the qualities of a person is assigned to something non- human. E.g.; The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn, like a child that has cried all night. In the line above, dawn has been personified as a mother. So the line above is a personification, metaphor, an image and a simile.

7. Simile : A direct comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as.” Example: He’s as dumb as an ox. Example: Her eyes are like comets. Metaphor : A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other. Example: He’s a zero. Example: Her fingers danced across the keyboard

8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1) Who is the speaker of the poem? The speaker of the poem is the fisherman. 2)What does the speaker ask his friends to do? The speaker asks his friends to begin their work early in the morning . 3)What is the leaping wealth of the tide? The fish is the leaping wealth of the tide.

9. ACTIVITY Write the rhyming words from the first eight lines of the poem.

10. Rhyming words Light - Night Free - Sea

11. ASSIGNMENT Write the summary of the first eight lines of the poem