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The poem “Wandering singers” by Sarojini Naidu is about the band of Folk singers who wander from town to town and from village to village to spread the message of love through their singing. They play the lute (a musical instrument) as they roam from place to place. The voice of the wind symbolizes the welcoming tone of the song that echoes through the forests and streets. To the wandering singers, all mankind are like their extended family and the world is their home. The theme of the songs that they sing goes back to stories of ancient battles or of old kings. They also have songs about the beauty of women and about happy and sad things.

The wandering singers have no dreams or hopes of their own; they go wherever the wind calls them. No love can make them go slow or no joy can bade them to wait. The voice of the wind is the voice of their life and also their destiny.

The song is about the band of folk singers who wander from town to town and from village to village to spread the message of love through their singing. They play the lute, a musical instrument as they roam from place to place. The theme of the song is about the swords of old battles and the crowns of old kings. They are also of the laughter and beauty of women in the past.

The poetess tells us that the wandering singers cannot have any hope or dream of bright future because of their wandering nature.

They wander about from one place to the other. The call of the wind determines where they go.

They feel nostalgic because during the king’s period, these singers used to get rewards, which made them lead a comfortable life.

It has been seized by wars, famine etc., so the beauty is gone.

The singers sing songs with lutes, in their hands and travelling from place to place.

Wandering singers are a band of folk singers who wander from place to place according to the call of the wind. It can either be town, village or forest.

‘Simple – sorrowful’ are the alliterated words.

Yes, they are homeless travellers because they wander from town to town and from village to village to spread the message of love through their singing.

(a) The cities lustre (glory) is shed (lost).

(b) She had mentioned the laughter and beauty of the women in the past

(c) It means ‘the glory’ of the cities

(d) Yes, they do sing of sorrowful things.

The wandering singers have no dreams or hopes of their own. They go wherever the wind calls them.

The songs sung by the wandering singers are about the laughter and beauty of women who were dead long ago.

Sarojini Naidu in this poem tells us about the wandering singers, their life and their activities as well as their experiences. The wandering singers stroll here and there. They count the world as their home and all the people around are their inborn family and relatives. They hold ‘lutes’ in their hands and sing songs about ancient battles, old kings and the beauty and laughter of women of the past

The wandering feet of the band of folk singers. With lutes in our hands ever-singing we roam, All men are our kindred, the world is our home.

Correct answer is (b) stories

(a) ‘We’ refers to the wandering singers. They have a musical instrument in their hands. Its name is ‘lute’.

(b) All the men in the world are their extended family and the world is their home.

They sing about the brave warriors who fought bravely with the sword

The laughter and the beauty has died because of wars or because of famine.

The rhyming words are ‘feet – street’.