Tagore As A Social Hero Essay

TAGORE AS A SOCIAL REFORMER AND HUMANIST

ABSTRACT

Tagore appears in the realm of literature is indeed a great event. Tagore represents a family of Jorasanko where atleast a dozen internationally famous men where born. His grandfather Prince Dwarkanath Tagore was one of the most cultured Rabindranath personalities in the British Empire to the extent of being a personal intimate friend of Queen Victoria. His illustrious father was one of the leading figures of Brahmo Samaj. He was affectionately addressed as Maharshi, meaning thereby a saintly personality. His brother Satyendranath Tagore was the first member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS). His nephew Abanindranath Tagore was the father of the new Art Movement in India. His sister-in-law Kadambari Devi, actually the main inspiration in the poet’s literary career, was an accomplished connoisseur of art and literature. It was she who fired the imagination in the mind of young Tagore to aspire

Critics will agree that many of his later literary pieces had surpassed Tagore’s own Gintanjali. He suffered mentally a lot due to literary rivals malicious bitter criticism. He was confronted with many family tragedies. He tasted the hazards and joys of life. So seems Tagore is describing his readers’ own personal joy and suffering of every days’s life. Tagore’s poems represent hope and aspiration of humankind. Rabindranath Tagore had written more than two thousand two hundred poems. They were given tunes mostly by the poet himself. A compilation under the title Gitabitan was not liked by the Poet because in a hurry all the poems were jumbled up in an unruly compilation. Towards the end of his life the Poet himself took up the task of classifying the songs under different