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In The Later Poems of Tagore, Sisir Kumar Ghose said, “Full of dramatic discords, through alternate rhythms of intensity and exhaustion, the[se] poems unfold the history of a conflict, long and carefully concealed, at the heart of the Rabindrean imagination.” He concluded, “To accept the best among the later poems is to alter our total conception of Tagore’s poetry.” “But,” he ...
- From The Archive: Rabindranath Tagore
In the third issue of Poetry, Harriet Monroe presented Nobel...
- We Both Live in The Same Village
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- The Gift
By Rabindranath Tagore. The Gift. By Rabindranath Tagore....
- The Tryst
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive...
- ("Sing The Song of The Moment"
By Rabindranath Tagore. Share. VI. Come as you are, tarry...
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Poem of The Day. the vacant lot. Mrs. Coley’s three-flat...
- From The Archive: Rabindranath Tagore
Oct 11, 2024 · Tagore’s novels in Bengali are less well known than his poems and short stories; they include Gora (1910) and Ghare-Baire (1916), translated into English as Gora and The Home and the World, respectively. In the late 1920s, when he was in his 60s, Tagore took up painting and produced works that won him a place among India’s foremost contemporary artists.
— Letter to Indira Devi. The youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore (nicknamed "Rabi") was born on 7 May 1861 in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, the son of Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875). [b] Tagore and his wife Mrinalini Devi, 1883 Tagore was raised mostly by servants; his mother had died in his early childhood and his father travelled widely. The ...
- Voice of Bengal
- The Mystic
- Confluence of Cultures
- Abode of Peace
- Gandhi and Tagore
- East and West
- God and Others
- Reasoning in Freedom
- Celibacy and Personal Life
- Science and The People
Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels, short stories, and essays are very widely...
The contrast between Tagore’s commanding presence in Bengali literature and culture, and his near-total eclipse in the rest of the world, is perhaps less interesting than the distinction between the view of Tagore as a deeply relevant and many-sided contemporary thinker in Bangladesh and India, and his image in the West as a repetitive and remote s...
Rabindranath did come from a Hindu family – one of the landed gentry who owned estates mostly in what is now Bangladesh. But whatever wisdom there might be in Akhmatova’s invoking of Hinduism and the Ganges, it did not prevent the largely Muslim citizens of Bangladesh from having a deep sense of identity with Tagore and his ideas. Nor did it stop t...
Most of his work was written at Santiniketan (Abode of Peace), the small town that grew around the school he founded in Bengal in 1901, and he not only conceived there an imaginative and innovative system of education, but through his writings and his influence on students and teachers, he was able to use the school as a base from which he could ta...
Since Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi were two leading Indian thinkers in the twentieth century, many commentators have tried to compare their ideas. On learning of Rabindranath’s death, Jawaharlal Nehru, then incarcerated in a British jail in India, wrote in his prison diary for August 7, 1941: Romain Rolland was fascinated by the contrast...
Given the vast range of his creative achievements, perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the image of Tagore in the West is its narrowness; he is recurrently viewed as “the great mystic from the East,” an image with a putative message for the West, which some would welcome, others dislike, and still others find deeply boring. To a great extent thi...
Yeats was not wrong to see a large religious element in Tagore’s writings. He certainly had interesting and arresting things to say about life and death. Susan Owen, the mother of Wilfred Owen, wrote to Rabindranath in 1920, describing her last conversations with her son before he left for the war which would take his life. Wilfred said goodbye wit...
For Tagore it was of the highest importance that people be able to live, and reason, in freedom. His attitudes toward politics and culture, nationalism and internationalism, tradition and modernity, can all be seen in the light of this belief.11 Nothing, perhaps, expresses his values as clearly as a poem in Gitanjali: Rabindranath’s qualified suppo...
Tagore and Gandhi’s attitudes toward personal life were also quite different. Gandhi was keen on the virtues of celibacy, theorized about it, and, after some years of conjugal life, made a private commitment – publicly announced – to refrain from sleeping with his wife. Rabindranath’s own attitude on this subject was very different, but he was gent...
Gandhi and Tagore severely clashed over their totally different attitudes toward science. In January 1934, Bihar was struck by a devastating earthquake, which killed thousands of people. Gandhi, who was then deeply involved in the fight against untouchability (the barbaric system inherited from India’s divisive past, in which “lowly people” were ke...
Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst. Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941), known also as Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, philosopher, religious thinker and intellectual leader, artist, playwright, composer, educationalist and novelist whose works ...
Aug 7, 2023 · Analysis: Through delicate imagery, Tagore speaks of a dream that’s vivid yet elusive. This transient dream serves as a metaphor for life, suggesting the transient nature of our existence and the experiences we cherish. The poem is a contemplation of reality, dreams, and the delicate boundary that separates them. 9.
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Nature and Environment. Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali is not only a masterpiece of literature, but it also reflects the poet’s deep love and respect for nature and the environment. Throughout the collection of poems, Tagore portrays nature as a source of inspiration, solace, and spiritual enlightenment.
