“The appearance of “The Poems of Rabindranath Tagore” is, to my mind, very important. I am by no means sure that I can convince the reader of this importance. For proof I must refer him to the text. He must read it quietly. He would do well to read it aloud, for this apparently simple English translation has been made by a great musician, by a great artist who is familiar with a music much subtler than our own.” -Ezra Pound on Rabindranath Tagore ESTABLISHING TAGORE Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, in what is now West Bengal, in 1861. He was a prolific poet and is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. He is known for being the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, a collection …show more content…
Rothenstein had gone to India with a very different agenda but in happenstance met Tagore. Tagore offered his Gitanjali translations (he had prepared them in solitude when he was recuperating) to Rothenstein who took it to W. B. Yeats and the seminal reading took place which proved quite important with the presence of George Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Robert Bridges, Ezra Pound etc. The conclusion of reading was that a new poet had emerged in the English society. Rothenstein arranged for publication of the translated poems under the title Gitanjali, or Song-Offering, first in a limited edition by the India Society in London, then by Macmillan. In the summer of 1913 Gitanjali brought Rabindranath the Nobel …show more content…
Tagore often felt out of step in his own country and longed for international; recognition. His rapid decline was to a great extant due to faults in his translations. As he became busy with travels, he often left his translation works to friends and associates whose competence was questionable. In his own translations he often tried to please Western audience by diluting the cultural specifity of the Bengali original. There were other reasons for his decline as well, for example his anti-imperialist views made him unpopular in the West. But whatever the case, Tagore is still
Some people never get satisfied with what they have. In the stories, "Amir", and, "Gold Mountain Poems", The life lesson is to be happy for what you have. In both stories the main characters are immigrants coming to America. In the story, Amir just moved here from India and is upset with the people. In the poem the speaker is taken to an immigrant island instead of being released to go live in America. In both stories they are grateful for what they have.
I would like to investigate the many struggles of women, whether it be race that differentiates them or an event that any woman could experience that brings them together. Beauty is not easily defined, and women everywhere struggle with not only pleasing the people around them, but themselves. Wanting to describes themselves and feel beautiful is one of the many struggles women experience throughout their lives. “Las Rubias” by Diana García from Fire and Ink represents a common example of what women of color experience while comparing themselves to the “beauty” of white women. The poem is divided into eight numbered sections, each containing their own experience or thought. This is effective because by the end of the poem, the reader has almost
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
Emily Dickinson’s use of poetic diction in poems 585 and 754 brings to life two inanimate objects, a train and a gun, both of which perform actions that are useful to man. Though these items cannot act on their own, Dickinson’s diction provides them with their own movements, characteristics, and feelings. In poem 585, a train’s daily journey is given a meaning beyond that of a cold, iron machine when Dickinson describes its animal qualities to show its strength, stubbornness, and perseverance. In poem 754, a gun is portrayed as a protective, devoted servant. In both of these poems, Emily Dickinson uses diction to give a train and a gun characteristics of animals to explain their behavior and feelings and to show how man uses them to his advantage and to meet his goals.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy tells a story of a father and son fighting to live throughout their journey to the south during the apocalypse. Even though they face many obstacles along the way, the bond they share always keeps them fighting to survive. This deep story of the bond between father and child makes it easier to see what it means to be human. The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart contains poetry relating to this topic of what it means to be human as well. The Road helps to enhance the understanding of many of the poems from The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart including “With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach” and “Faith.” Even though the poems differ from The Road, the book helps by giving examples to explain the poems better, making the message behind them clearer.
One of the most distinguished, contemporary poets in America today is Joy Harjo. Born in 1951 in Oklahoma and a member of the Creek (Mvskoke) Nation, her work is deeply influenced by her American Indian roots and upbringing. She has won numerous awards and has published a fair amount of poetry books as well as a memoir, Crazy Brave published in 2012. She is currently a professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 2014, Harjo has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a prestigious award to further the development of scholars and artists. She is planning to use the award funds to complete her second memoir, Songline of Justice.
Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2,1869 at Porbandar, Gujarat to a very respected family. His father was the chief minister of Porbandar. A few years after Mahatma Gandhi was born, his father had died leaving Gandhi depressed. After a few years, he slowly got on with his life and in the year of 1888, had set sail for England so he could finish his degree in law at the Inner Temple, one of the four law schools in England. He was called to bar in 1891 and even enrolled in the high court of London, yet later that very year he returned to India. In India, after a year of very unsuccessful law practice, he decided to accept an offer from an Indian business man,Dada Abdulla, in which Gandhi would traveled ...
1) The theme that I will explore for the two independent pieces, will involve the theme of simply finding who you really are. As a viewer we should see past the complications of the obstacles we face in our day-to-day lives, for our eyes should only then become fixated on the endless possibilities of the time we have left within the intersection of time and space. The viewer can than grasp each of the moments that are left, so they can imagine beyond the emptiness - alone to see a sense of self-discovery in the very center, only pondering on the isolated sense of power we hold as humans to create a new life of belonging. Also, the depiction of having a positive approach to life’s challenges is essential to explore life and work
...raries, the sixth Dalai Lama did not see the necessity to make his poetic observations verbose. . It is often tempting when reading Gyatso to glance over the short poems and write the works off as the quick ramblings of a young man; however Gyatso’s Love Poems, though short, are full of passion. If the reader slows down and reads each poem with care, it becomes apparent that Gyatso chose his words carefully. As seen in the eleventh poem, the young Gyatso employed the use of metaphor and double meaning to convey his feelings. The extra care that he took in selecting his words resulted in deep insight into the mind of the young Dalai Lama.
“The Spring and the Fall” is written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The poem is about two people, the poet and her significant other that she once had love for. The poem integrates the use of spring and fall to show how the poet stresses her relationship. Of course it starts off briefly by having a happy beginning of love, but the relationship soon took a shift for the worst, and there was foreshadow that there would be an unhappy ending. “I walked the road beside my dear. / The trees were black where the bark was wet” (2-3). After the seasons changed, the poet begins to explain why the relationship was dying, and all of the bad things she endured during the relationship. So, to what extend did the poet’s heart become broken, and did she ever
Poets shared their experience of the lives in poetic verses. For this reason, history is full of the stories with passionate and deep love. The same idea was also the central point of one of the most famous poet of the history named Galib. He was a famous poet of the seventeenth century, and has several touching poetries in Urdu and Persian language on his credit. In his poetry, deep love seemed to be the main idea, but the true essence was the deep sorrow and a sad impression which made his poetry stands out among others. In his magnificent and truthful poetry, Ghalib unfolded the distinctive relation between the love and sorrow. He demonstrated this unique relation by sharing his personal stories, for example the love with the God, love and passion with the lover and with the love with his nephew. In these relations hopelessness, grief and depression was a common attitude which made his poetry exceptional.
In 1914 he returned as a hero to all Indian people and was considered a holly man, because of this he was often referred to as Mahatma which means great soul. Wile in India the British started to take Indian civil liberties after world war one, hence Gandhi protested fallowing his own nonviolent ways when the Amritsar massacre occurred and both he and India came to the realization that India needed to be a self governed people.
A Bengali mystic and artist, Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet, philosopher, music composer and a leader of Brahma Samaj who became a prominent voice of the Indian heritage. Best known for his poems and short stories, essays, novels articles etc., Tagore largely contributed to the Bengali literature in the late 19th and early 20th century and created his masterpieces such as Ghare- Baire, Yogayog, Sandhya Sangeet, Naibedya, Gitanjali and Gitimalya. As a Bengali polymath, he redesigned his region’s literature and music and became the first Non- European to win the Nobel Prize for literature for “Gitanjali” the book of poems.
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