Answer. The poet is addressing his love, Maud Gonne, English heiress and Irish Revolutionary.
What was the nickname of Rabindranath Tagore?
Where Rabindranath was born?
Letter from Sir Rabindranath Tagore to His Excellency the Viceroy, renouncing his title of Knighthood in protest of the policy followed by the Government in Punjab.
Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. Tagore returned his Knighthood for Services to Literature, which he was awarded in 1915, in protest against the 1919 Amritsar Massacre.
Kamala Das, Malayalam pen name Madhavikutty, Muslim name Kamala Surayya, (born March 31, 1934, Thrissur, Malabar Coast [now in Kerala], British India—died May 31, 2009, Pune, India), Indian author who wrote openly and frankly about female sexual desire and the experience of being an Indian woman.
Kabir eschewed the formality of organized religions, but sought to find “God" in his own personal truth. This philosophy is in step with people today who seek to find common ground in our various faiths, as opposed to concentrating on the details that build walls and divide us.
Answer: The visual image of things floating down the stream of time gives us the idea that whatever is worldly will perish oneday. Question 6. Pick out two instances of simile from the poem.
Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon
Who wrote the poem Gitanjali?
Who wrote song offerings?
In the poem Where the Mind is Without Fear, the poet Rabindranath Tagore is rather sorrowful for the ignorance, illiteracy, disunity, laziness and narrow-mindedness of his countrymen. He thinks actual freedom cannot be enjoyed without possessing good virtues.
Explanation: The title "Gitanjali" is appropriate because as the title suggests it is an offering of songs. The word Gitanjali is a combination of two words 'geet' meaning 'songs' and 'anjali' meaning offering. The word 'anjali' is used to refer to 'prayerful offering.
In which language Gitanjali is written?
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
Who wrote Shesher Kobita?
Advertisement. Why Rabindranath Tagore is a poet of Bengal, India, the world.
“When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word.
Lessons From Tagore
- Steer away from corruption. In the first line, Tagore prays that he will one day be rid of the corruption inherent within his heart.
- Service to others.
- Preserve your dignity.
- Stop living in a bubble.
- Concluding thoughts.
'Head is held high' indicates that we should not be ashamed of ourselves. Rather we should be proud of our country, for what we have. A sense of self-dignity is what we need to enjoy our freedom fully.
Answer. Answer: It was Tagore who conferred the title of 'Mahatma' on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1915.
