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The notable artist, the political figure, and “the Nightingale of India” Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) was one of the outstanding poetesses in Indian English literature especially in the pre independence period. In addition to the artistic part of her life, she also was a social activist, a freedom fighter, and a politician; she was the first women governor of an Indian state after independence. Her poetry has gained her an elevated literary position in the Indian English poetry as well as a political attribution to the independence demand. Sarojini’s first collection of poems was “the Golden Threshold” (1905). Thereafter, she published two collections called the “Bird of Time” (1912) and the “Broken Wings” (1917). This wide spread fame of Sarojini in the world and in India in particular comes from the highly touching and elevated themes she was addressing in her writings. She celebrated themes that motivate and touch people’s hearts such as nationalism and Indianness. These themes echo in most of her poems, but the objective of this paper is to highlight these themes as they are reflected in her two famous poems; “In The Bazaars of Hyderabad “and “Palanquin Bearers”.