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Questions about 'Gitanjali', a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore published in 1910. Use with [rabindranath-tagore], [bengali-language] 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? …
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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 103 poems. … (Some of these were not from the Bengali Gitanjali.) Or does it have a different reason that I have failed to notice? …
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