Questions tagged [gitanjali]
Questions about 'Gitanjali', a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore published in 1910. Use with [rabindranath-tagore], [bengali-literature], and [poetry]
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What does the sword represent in poem 52 of Tagore's English Gitanjali?
In poem 52 of Tagore's English version of Gitanjali, a female persona speaks of a gift that a man or lover left her:
What token left of thy love? It is no flower, no spices, no vase of perfumed water....
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Why does Tagore not consistently use ‘thou’ when addressing the supreme being in Gitanjali?
The large majority of poems in the English version of Tagore's Gitanjali address a supreme being. Tagore uses the pronouns "thou", "thee" and "thy" in almost all of these ...
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Is Rabindranth Tagore talking about the actual wave nature of light here in Gitanjali?
The Nobel prize winning work Gitanjali by Rabdinranath Tagore quotes:
Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light
Is he referring to the actual electromagnetic wave nature of ...
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