Understanding ideas of Empire and colonialism in Naidu’s ‘The Gift of India’
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I can explain how Naidu presents the experience of dying at war within the context of Empire and colonialism.
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Naidu personifies India as a mother to humanise the soldiers and emphaise that they are someone's son.
Arguably, Naidu uses the poem as a request for Britain to remember the sacrifice of the soldiers.
The poem is a tribute to the memory of more than one million soldiers from undivided India who had served in WW1.
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