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  1. There are mainly two messages in the poem The Gift of India: Remembering our brave soldiers: The poem is patriotic in nature and written in the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for India in foreign lands. The poet remembers their great sacrifice and suggests the readers to keep them in theRead more

    There are mainly two messages in the poem The Gift of India:

    1. Remembering our brave soldiers: The poem is patriotic in nature and written in the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for India in foreign lands. The poet remembers their great sacrifice and suggests the readers to keep them in their memories.
    2. War bring destruction: The second message of this poem is that there should be no wars because wars bring death and destruction. There is the loss of lives, property, environment, money, animals, plants, water bodies etc. Hence there should be no wars.

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  1. Following literary/poetic devices or figures of speech have been used in the poem The Gift of India: Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things (living or non-living). In the poem India is personified as a mother who has feelings. She is Mother India. She isRead more

    Following literary/poetic devices or figures of speech have been used in the poem The Gift of India:

    1. Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things (living or non-living). In the poem India is personified as a mother who has feelings. She is Mother India. She is proud of those who sacrificed their lives for their country. At the same time she weeps because she cannot bear their separation.
    2. Metaphor: It is a literary device that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike e.g. Indian soldiers are called pearls (precious stones).
    3. Simile: It is a. literary device that involves comparison of two different things using “as’ or “like”. e.g. “Gathered like pearls in their alien gravès”, “Scattered like shells on Egyptian sands”, “They are strewn like blossoms mown down by chance”.
    4. Alliteration: It is a poetic devices that involves the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together. e.g.Rich gifts of raiment”, “grain or gold”, “Priceless treasures torn”, “Silent they sleep”, “pale brows and brave, broken hands”, “the blood-brown meadows”, “Flanders and France”, “the woe of the watch”, “thrills thro’ my heart’s despair”, “the terror and tumult”, “the deeds of the deathless ones,”, “my martyred sons”.
    5. Oxymoron: It is a poetic device that combines two words that seem to be the opposite of each other e.g. “sad glorious vision”.

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    The poem The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu is written for the Indian soldiers who fought for the British in World War 1. The speaker here is the India or Mother India who is personified as the mother of all those children. As mother, India tells the world that she has never denied anything to themRead more

    The poem The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu is written for the Indian soldiers who fought for the British in World War 1. The speaker here is the India or Mother India who is personified as the mother of all those children.

    As mother, India tells the world that she has never denied anything to them. She even gave her priceless sons to them which were though inseparable from her.

    She weeps for the loss inflicted on her by the world. Her sons were made to fight on foreign lands who died there and were buried in groups. Thus the victory is nothing for her because she is seeing beyond it i.e. the blood and the pain of the soldiers.

    She also feels proud that she has given birth to such brave and courageous sons who fought fearlessly and sacrificed their lives.

    In the end she says that when peace will be restored and everything will be normal, her sons, their contributions and sacrifices will be remembered by the people.

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