The Bangle Sellers

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

Lyrical poem

Question 2

Phrases used for bangles

Answer 2

“Delicate, bright, rainbow tinted circles of light”.
“Lustrous tokens of radiant lives”
“For happy daughters and happy wives”.

Question 3

Setting of the Bangle Sellers

Answer 3

The Temple Fair

Question 4

Colours for youth

Answer 4

“Silver and blue as the mountain mist”

“Flushed like that the buds that dream on the tranquil brow of a woodland stream”

Question 5

Symbolism of colours for maidens

Answer 5

Innocence, youth, purity

Question 6

Colours for bride

Answer 6

Yellow like the “fields of sunlit corn”.
Orange and red like the “flame of the marriage fire”
Rich with the “hue of the heart’s desire”

Question 7

Symbolism of colours for bride

Answer 7

Yellow: happiness, new beginnings

Orange and red: passion, love

Question 8

Colours for middle aged women

Answer 8

Purple and gold freckled grey

Question 9

Symbolism of colours for middle aged women

Answer 9

Symbolise maturity

Question 10

Activities of middle aged women

Answer 10

“whose hands have cherished”
“whose love has blest”
“and has cradled sons on her faithful breast”
“and serves her household in fruitful pride”
“and worships the gods at her husband’s side”