Summer Wood by Sarojini Naidu

                         Summer Wood

"Summer Wood" is a poem written by Sarojini Naidu. This poem is an extract  from her book “The Broken Wings”. She is a naturalist. She communicates her aversion for the artificiality of human life in the modern society.

The poet has become tired about luxury and comfort. She no longer desire  to exist under the “painted roofs” and "soft and silken floor".  She craves for  "summer-houses with over-hanging canopies of bright-red Gulmohars". 

The poet is tired of honour, fame and conflict and she aspires to "fly where cassia-woods are breaking into flame". She desires to enter the forest along with her lover to rest in peace. “O let us fling all care away, and lie alone and dream". Both of them are lying under the tangled boughs of tamarind, molsari and neem.

The poet wishes  to play on carved flutes to awaken the slumbering serpents among the thick banyan roots. She longs to walk with her lover along the bank of the river and bathe in water lily pools where golden panthers drink.

In the concluding stanza, the poetess tells her love that they should lie with love-voiced silences in the deep blossoming woods. She equates her love  with that of Radhika and Krishna.