Essay On Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who raised and reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th century. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year of 1913 for his extremely fresh, beautiful and mesmerizing verse Gitanjali. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Devendranath Tagore, who was a leader of the Brahmo Samaj. In his early age, in addition to his many literary works, he managed his family estates, which made him closer to the common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. Later on, in his life he started a school at Shantiniketan, where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. Tagore started writing his poems at the age of eighteen. He released his first

Through his many works Gitanjali or The Postmaster or in The Religion of Man, it has been seen that he had talked about both the eastern and western thoughts, the similarities, the differences, and the use of spirituality to make one’s life better . For him the beauty was an important part of the life and Sadhana so these themes are reflected in his poetry. In these lines it has been shown that how beauty was important to him, Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal being. Tagore kept writing poetry throughout his life. When he suffered from the illness, he brought out the theme of death and man’s immortality in his poems. ‘The night is black and the forest has no end; a million people thread it in a million ways…’ these lines are from his poem On the Nature of Love which explains the darkness and death of the life. His poetries were also greatly appreciated by the Spanish poets. The author of Naivedya (1901) and Kheya (1906) 3won that year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. He was awarded as the knighthood by the British Crown for his Geetanjali in 1912 which he relinquished after the Jalianwala Bagh