Queen's Rival by Sarojini Nadiu

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The poem The Queen Rival has been composed by Sarojini  Naidu a great Indian English Poet. The Queens Rival is a  narrative poem where narrator is a third person who maybe the poet himself. This background of the  poem is persian mediaval famlus in history for riches spendour and luxury. It show how Sarojini naidu was familiar with persian history as well as Persian poetry.

Here we have fascinating story of Queen Gulnar,  the consort of king Ferozof Persia Queen Gulnar possesses unrivalled beauty. She leads a life of luxury and comfort and seems to be satisfied with these. But she is tired of a beauty, thired of shadowless bliss. There is nobody to envy her to contradict her to feel jealous of her charms, of her magnificence of the unbound love which king Feroz bestows upon Queen Gulnar, sitting on her ivory bed, looks in her mirror and Sighs. She wants someone to feel jealous of her charm. What she wants is a rival to complete with her. Queen asks for arrival. The king at one sent his messenger who went over the sea and returned with seven damsets. The Queen gazes in her mirror and Sighs  again like a murmuring rose. The king has not bought her arrival. The severn bridge are but hand maids to obey and serve and not to envy or gainsay.

 Years roll by and spring comes with all its Splendor, Queen Gulnar sitting on her bed of ivory is deeking her exquisite head with Jewel. Still see gaze in her mirror and still she sighs that her heart is  unsatisfied. Then something unexpected happens. Her doctor two Spring times old, ran to her knee and plucked from her hand the mirror away, she looked at her on image in the mirror, she set her own urls and pressed on the the mirror and pressed on the mirror a glad kiss. Queen  Gulnar laughed and said her is my rival King Feroz.

 The setting of the poem is a highly romantic. Its theme is every women desire instinctively and eternally to re-live her beauty in her daughter.


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