Book Review - Gitanjali By Rabindranath Tagore

Shri Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest poets to come from India. For his beautiful, deep and insightful verses, which expressed his prosaic thoughts, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this post, we will review his one of the greatest creations, GITANJALI, which means SONG OFFERINGS.

Gitanjali is a collected works of over hundred poems, full of life, full of encouragement and full of insights. Gitanjali speaks of life, from birth to the death, the life and man’s pursuit for answers from God. Be it song or rain, nature or god, each poems show the ease of feelings. Simple recurring lines add to certain poems, while other poems are just a collection of sentences connected together. However as said, it is the content which forms the magic of the whole collection when read as one. Rain forms a significant characteristic of this book, with many poems dedicated to rain itself. While one poem explains the pleasure of approaching rain, the other brings about the holiness of a rainy night. Tagore did not have need of too many words to express his meaning. His command over his views automatically flows through his pen with ultimate ease.

Most of the poems signify human existence and emotion that a person goes through. Sharing one of the poems from the collection:

Let all the strains of joy

mingle in my last song

the joy that makes the earth

flow over

in the riotous excess of the grass,

the joy that sets the twin brothers,

life and death,

dancing over the wide world,

the joy that sweeps in

with the tempest,

shaking and waking all life with laughter,

the joy that sits still

with its tears

on the open red lotus of pain,

and the joy

that throws everything

it has upon the dust,

and knows not a word.

It is really a beautiful book with lovely words weaving themselves into divine songs and poems, and there is truth and sincerity through and through. It reaches out, becomes alive in your soul, and sets things a-stirring in the way that is most desired by all lost and thirsty.

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