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    The document summarizes the contributions of four female poets who helped change poetry: Sappho, Sarojini Naidu, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and their collective impact on society. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet from the 7th century BC known for her beautiful love songs. Sarojini Naidu was an Indian poet and independence activist in the late 19th/early 20th century known as the "Nightingale of India." Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a 19th century English poet who battled illness and gender restrictions to produce innovative works. Collectively, these poets advocated for women's rights and freedoms through their poetry and helped shift poetry away from classical themes to individual human experiences.

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    The document summarizes the contributions of four female poets who helped change poetry: Sappho, Sarojini Naidu, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and their collective impact on society. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet from the 7th century BC known for her beautiful love songs. Sarojini Naidu was an Indian poet and independence activist in the late 19th/early 20th century known as the "Nightingale of India." Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a 19th century English poet who battled illness and gender restrictions to produce innovative works. Collectively, these poets advocated for women's rights and freedoms through their poetry and helped shift poetry away from classical themes to individual human experiences.

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    English Presentation

    Female Poets who


    Changed the Poetry Game
    -Divija Agrawal
    RA211030010251
    Table Of Contents
    01 02
    Sappho Sarojini Naidu

    03 04
    Elizabeth Barrett Impact on
    Browning Society
    Sappho - C. 630-C.570 BC
    Greek lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the
    beauty of her writing style.
    Her works were very sensual, mainly love songs
    Her emotions lose nothing of their force by being
    recollected in tranquility.
    Often referred to as "the Poetess"
    Most of Sappho's poetry has mostly survived in
    fragmentary form; only the "Ode to Aphrodite" is
    certainly complete.
    Sarojini Naidu-(13 February 1879 – 2
    March 1949)
    Known as the ‘Nightingale of
    India’a celebrated poet, playwright and Indian independence
    Was
    activist.
    Her poetry was so beautiful it could also be sung.

    The Golden Threshold The Sceptred Flute

    The Bird of Time The Feather of the Dawn


    Elizabeth Barrett Browning -(6 March
    1806-29 June 1861)
    One of the great experimenters in 19th-century poetry.
    Recognized internationally for innovative and challenging
    verse
    Her poetic form encompasses lyric, ballad and
    narrative
    Battled chronic illness and the suffocating restrictions
    placed on
    Remembered
    her gender for such poems as "How Do I Love
    Thee?" (Sonnet 43, 1845) and Aurora Leigh (1856).
    Impact on Society
    You're
    something someone will
    between a remember us
    dream and a Hark to a voice I say
    that is calling, to even in
    miracle another time .
    Elizabeth Barrett my heart in the Sapph
    Browning voice of the o leading an
    mind credited for
    Advocated for Sarojini Naidu aesthetic movement away
    women’s from classical themes of
    freedoms, covered Indian contemporary Gods, to the themes of
    child labor life and issues. individual human
    reforms and inspires every generation of experiences.
    the abolition women to passion and vigor in
    of slavery. whatever career we choose.
    www.poetryfoundation.org
    www.britannica.com https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-
    www.poetryintranslation.com victorians/articles/elizabeth-
    barrett-browning-style-subject-
    en.wikipedia.org and-reception#:~:text=Elizabeth
    https://www.sacred-texts.com/ %20Barrett%20Browning's
    cla/pos/pos08.htm %20poetic%20form,reception
    https://mypoeticside.com/ %20during%20the%2019th
    poets/sarojini-naidu-poems %20century.
    https://www.britannica.com/ https://poets.org/poet/elizabeth-
    biography/Sarojini-Naidu barrett-browning

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