‘Song of a Dream’, written by Sarojini Naidu, is a Romantic lyric. The poem describes a dream that expresses the speaker’s wish for an ideal world of Truth, Love and Peace.
The poem has two stanzas- the first describes a vision and the second describes what the speaker has done there. In a
dream of night, the speaker stood alone in a magical wood. Visions sprang up
like poppy. In that enchanted land, the spirits of Truth were the singing birds. The
spirits of Love were the shining stars and the spirits of Peace were the
flowing streams. The speaker felt the stars- the spirits of Love- gather around
her delicate youth. She heard the song of Truth. She quenched her thirst from
the streams of Peace
The most obvious theme of the poem is the dream of an
ideal society where truth, love and peace prevail. It can be the speaker’s
concept of independent India. Capitalizing the words – Truth, Love and
Peace- suggests sublimation of these values. The dreamland is without anything
‘wild’ about it.
The poem has two septets each rhyming ‘aabbccd’. It resembles a sonnet in the number of lines and its romantic content. However, its stanza pattern and rhyme scheme are not those of regular English sonnets Sarojini Naidu’s poem shares the legacy of Romantic poetry and it expresses a dream of an ideal and perfect society of truth, love and peace.
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