The predominance of Love in the poems of Sarojini Naidu

The present paper is an attempt at highlighting the different shades of love reflected in her love-lyrics. Her love lyrics deal with a variety of love experiences and her attitude to love has the feminine tenderness and is marked by a total self-surrender of the beloved to her object of love. The influence of the English romantic poets like Shelley and Keats is easily perceptible through the entire fabric of her love poetry which combines freshness and exuberance of spirit suffused with exquisite melody and sensitivity of emotion and expression. At times one gets the impression that she transfers love as personal desire into divine love and gives it a sense of the eternity of the Universal and hence reminiscent of the qualities of amorous tradition of Keats and Pre-Raphaelites.