Rabindranath Tagore Analysis

English translation. Tagore certainly had strongly held religious beliefs (of an unusually nondenominational kind), but he was interested in a great many other things as well and had many different things to say about them.
For Tagore it was of the most elevated significance that individuals have the capacity to live, and reason, in flexibility. His mentality to governmental issues and society, patriotism and internationalism, custom and advancement, can all be seen in the light of this belief. Nothing, maybe, communicates his qualities as obviously as a ballad in Gitanjali:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; ...
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; ...
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath's qualified backing for patriot developments and his resistance to the unfreedom of outsider guideline hailed from this dedication. So did his reservations about patriotism, which, he contended, can restrain both the flexibility to captivate thoughts from outside "slender provincial dividers" and the opportunity likewise to help the reason for individuals in different nations. Rabindranath's ardor for opportunity underlies his firm restriction to unreasoned traditionalism, which makes one a detainee of the past (lost, as he place it, in "the troubling desert sand of dead propensity").

Tagore outlines the oppression of the past in his interesting yet profoundly genuine illustration Kartar Bhoot ("The Ghost of the Leader"). As the regarded pioneer of a nonexistent area is going to bite the dust, his terrified supporters dem...

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...f his best and truest confidants in the extraordinary development he is heading.
Tagore's close to home life was, from multiple points of view, a troubled one. He wedded in 1883, lost his wife in 1902, and never remarried. He looked for close friendship, which he didn't dependably get (maybe actually throughout his wedded life—he kept in touch with his wife, Mrinalini: In the event that you and I could be confidants in all our work and in all our considerations it might be wonderful, yet we can't achieve all that we want). He looked after a warm fellowship with, and a solid Platonic connection to, the literary works cherishing wife, Kadambari, of his senior sibling, Jyotirindranath. He devoted a few sonnets to her before his marriage, and some books a while later, some after her passing (she conferred suicide, for reasons that are not completely comprehended, at the