DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 2024-2025

Prepared by: Ms. Dhanya P Week: 17.06.24- 21.06.24

Reviewed by: Mr. Saji Joseph (HoD) Grade: 5

NOTES

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I will be able to –

• identify the rhyme scheme.

• discuss the feeling of brotherhood in the singers.

• critically appreciate a poem about a band of wandering singers.

Success Criteria-

− I should ……….
SUMMARY:
(For reference only)
The poem Wandering Singers by Sarojini Naidu is about a group of people who keep
wandering from villages to towns and from towns to forests. While on the way, they
keep singing.

According to the poet, these wandering singers do not have any hopes or desires. They
go where the wind goes. In other words, they seem to either nomads or some nature
lovers who are Romantic and do not have any love for materialistic things. Instead,
they love following nature.

In the first stanza, the wandering singers say that they roam where the voice of the
wind calls their feet. The word wind is symbolic here. It perhaps refer to changing
seasons or even the changing times. Calling the wandering feet means asking them to
accompany it (the wind). In other words, they wander wherever the wind goes.

The wandering singers travel through the echoing forest and the echoing street with
lutes in their hands and always keep singing. Here, echoing forest mean the villages
which are full of hustle and bustle. Similarly, echoing street refers to the cities which
are again full of life.

According to the wandering singer, all the humans on earth are their family and the
whole world is their home. In other words, they do not have a family of their own or
even a home. They rather consider themselves to be the citizens of the world.

The wandering singers then raise a rhetorical question. They wonder what hope and
dreams they should have. Hope and dreams are for those who think of achieving
something (worldly things). But they (wandering singers) do not have any desire.
Hence, they do not have dreams.

They go wherever the wind goes. No love bids them tarry i.e. the love never leaves them.
They always feel loved by nature. And no joy bids them wait i.e. the joy never makes
them for it. They always enjoy it because the voice of the wind is the voice of their fate
i.e. the fate of the wind is their fate as well.

Learning Outcomes:

Competence:
Value: