How can you best paraphrase the poem "The Soul's Prayer" by Sarojini Naidu?

Question

I don't want the procedure of paraphrasing a poem , but need the summary of the poem asked!

Answer 1

The summary is right there in front of you in the poem. You just have to write it down as prose.

Answer 2

The following is th etext of the poem :

THE SOUL'S PRAYER

by: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)

In childhood’s pride I said to Thee:

‘O Thou, who mad’st me of Thy breath,

Speak, Master, and reveal to me

Thine inmost laws of life and death.

  

‘Give me to drink each joy and pain

Which Thine eternal hand can mete,

For my insatiate soul would drain

Earth’s utmost bitter, utmost sweet.

  

‘Spare me no bliss, no pang of strife,

Withhold no gift or grief I crave,

The intricate lore of love and life

And mystic knowledge of the grave.’

  

Lord, Thou didst answer stern and low:

‘Child, I will hearken to thy prayer,

And thy unconquered soul shall know

All passionate rapture and despair.

  

‘Thou shalt drink deep of joy and fame,

And love shall burn thee like a fire,

And pain shall cleanse thee like a flame,

To purge the dross from thy desire.

  

‘So shall thy chastened spirit yearn

To seek from its blind prayer release,

And spent and pardoned, sue to learn

The simple secret of My peace.

  

‘I, bending from my sevenfold height,

Will teach thee of My quickening grace,

Life is a prism of My light,

And Death the shadow of My face.’

Lord thou hast made me, kindly reveal thy inmost laws of thy birth and death .

My soul will drink thy joy and pain, thy utmost bitter and sweet.

Give me thy bliss, thy strife, thy love , thy life and thy grave !

Thy voice was stern , ' Thou shalt know my rapture and despair.'

Thou shalt drink deep of joy and fame , and thy desire shall be purged by the flame of my fire.

Thus purged , thy spirit shall learn the secret of my simple peace.

The last stanza is truly the summary of the whole poem :

Thus by my eight-fold path, thou shalt know the secret of the light of Life and the shadow of Death .