In the end, the poet says those hands are cold. Cold Hands here refer to poets who are dead now. Thus they have lived after their death as the flowers still bloom on their graves. The fame (or the immortal artworks of those poets) has always honoured them i.e. They produced excellent poetry that would make the listeners blissful. The poet says that there were a number of poets before him whose melodies are more worthy far than his own. Also, there is a shift from the musical instrument (harp) to those who sung melodies (poets). The second part begins with a mourn but ends in hope. It is now neglected, muted and deserted like a very old monument in the desert that is ruined now. The silence or being unmusical, it is dead now.
It has become too old to be played nowĮven the breeze or air which passes by the harp cannot wake it up or in other words cannot play it. But who hears it now? because its strings have been removed and hence it cannot produce music.
So like the dead branch, it is also dead.įurther, the poet sighs that once its music was quite sweet meaning that before being unstrung, it used to have sweet melodies. In the next line, the poet imagines with deep grief that it will remain there forever without its strings. Thus the very beginning of the poem is full of sadness and melancholy. The poet wonders why the harp is hanging lonely on the dry and dead branch. Thou here refers to the harp and in a deeper sense the natives of Indian. The poem begins with the question Why hang’st thou lonely on yon withered bough?. In the second part, the poet hopes that glory will be back. In the first section, the poet laments the loss of the glorious past of India. However, it is different from the traditional sonnets and has a rhyme scheme ababbabcdcdcbb. There are mainly two sections in the poem. The poet uses Harp as a symbol for the Indian poets who were earlier famous but under the British Rule, they are suffering.
The poem Harp of India celebrates the glorious past of India and mourns over its loss because of British Rule and ends with the hope that she (India) will regain its glory.
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