If you call me I will come- Sarojini Naidu

IF YOU CALL ME I WILL COME 

About the Poet

Sarojini Naidu was born into a Bengali family in 1879. She began writing poetry as a child and at the age of twelve passed the matriculation examination for the University of Madras. She was an Indian Independence activist and poet. Her first Volume of Poetry, The Golden Threshold was published in England in 1905; with an introduction by Arthur Symons. She also known as "The Nightingale of India". She was an first Indian Woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Some of her major works are, 

• The Golden Threshold
• The Bird of Tie (1912)
• The broken Wing (1917)
• The Temple: A Pilgrimage of Love.
• The Feather of the Dawn

Summary- IF YOU CALL ME I WILL COME

If you call me is the fifth poem (lines 56-71) of the series, The Gate of delight. It is a passionate song of charming and ecstatic submission of the self to the lover. The beloved offers herself completely for true love. There is a compelling sense of total self-surrender and an apparent glorification of the beloved's suffering to lose oneself in the Infinite. Such is the paradox of love, that the pleasure of separation is as great as the joy of union.

The poetess is excited to see her lover and is merely waiting for his call. She would run to him as soon as he called her, faster than a scared deer run away from the hunter. "Than a trembling forest deer Or a panting dove" (58). She would even faster than the panting dove. She is more excited to reach her lover if he call her as swifter than a snake at the call of a snake-charmer. 

In the second stanza, the poetess says that she will come courageously, regardless of repercussions. "Swifter than the lightning's feet" (65). If he calls her, she will come faster to reach him more than the lightning rushes across the sky wearing shoes of feathers of fire. She will never care of the obstacle and difficulties that may beset her path.