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Let the fount of all my inspiration spring from u.
May 14, 2006 07:39 PM 25789 Views
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We all know Rabindranath Tagore as the Nobel-winning poet from Calcutta.Lesser known are the circumstances under which he won the prize for 'Gitanjali'.Tagore never managed to get beyond standard seven.He was sent to england to get schooled but he came back after a few months.His father's income was rapidly dwindling,their zamindari was forfeited.He married but his wife died leaving behind four children.All except one died.But the man continued writing.Not many people read his work.His songs were decried as vulgar.His stories were branded ultra-progressive and hence blasphemous.The man had nothing going for him when in 1912 he showed his poems to William Butler Yeats.Yeats liked what he read and asked Tagore to translate his best poems and make a collections.Thus emerged 'Gitanjali'


My title is one of the better known poems of 'Gitanjali'.Almost all the poems are dedicated to an unknown deity.A personal god to whom Tagore relates.He is omnipotent and benevolent.He dispenses eternal happiness which Tagore called 'Ananda'.Tagore relates to his deity as man relates to nature.And nature to the earth.Imagine this.Here's this obscure poet from india who is poor.He has no property.His aged parents have died.All he has are his poems and W.B.Yeats' support.And yet,this man becomes the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize.Life can certainly be full of surprises.


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