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Is Rabindranth Tagore talking about the actual wave nature of light here in Gitanjali?
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No.
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Tagore was interested in science, and even arranged to meet Einstein in 1930. So it is tempting to speculate that Tagore had the wave nature of light in mind when he wrote in Poem 57 ...
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