4. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of
Debendranath. Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7,
1861 in a wealthy Brahmin family in the Jorasanko
mansion in Calcutta .
5. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he
was sent to England for formal schooling, Rabindranath
Tagore was the first Asian who won the first Nobel Prize
for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913; awarded
knighthood by the British King George V; established
Viswabharati University; two songs from his
Rabindrasangit canon are now the national anthems of India
and Bangladesh.
6. Rabindranath Tagore was an icon of Indian culture. He
was a poet, philosopher, music
ian, writer, and educationist. when he won Nobel Prize
for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913, he was
popularly called
as Gurudev and his songs were popularly known as
Rabindrasangeet. Two songs from his Rabindrasangit
canon are now the national anthems : the Jana Gana
Mana and the Amar Shonar Bangla.
JANA GANA MANA…
AMAR SHONAR
BANGLA…
7. Rabindranath Tagore became the editor of the
magazine Bangadarshan. He Established Bolpur
Bramhacharyaashram at Shantiniketan, a school based
on the pattern of old Indian Ashrama. In 1905, Lord
Curzon decided to divide Bengal into two parts.
Rabindranath Tagore strongly protested against this
decision.
8. He introduced the Rakhibandhan ceremony ,
symbolizing the underlying unity of undivided
Bengal.
15. Our mind and body become a slave to the unending
desire. In the cycle of desiring and fulfilling the human
being forget that , this world is just a play ground and
which human being are players.
The life is a game which is controlled by the referey of
god .Here game is compar with life it is metaphore.The
diction of the poem is lucid and the poet also uses the
commercial diction like gold , silver, account and so on .
The words which are use is very common and the poem
is visual imagery kinesthetic.
16.
17.
18. Swami Vivekananda wrote 33 poems including two
translations, eight in Bengali, and four in Sanskrit and
one in Hindi. From among these poems- only three- “To
the Awakened India”,To the Fourth of July”and “Kali the
Mother”will be the concern of this paper. These poems
form a group by themselves as they were all written in
Kashmir during his visit in the year 1898.
19.
20. This poem is a representative poem of Swami Vivekanda , is written or forced
itself into writing, when, during the days of pilgrimage to Kshir Bhawani
(Kashmir) in 1898; Swami was in such a high spiritual state that it seemed
indeed as if his physical frame could not bear it for long.
21. Sister Nivedita who accompanied the Swami on
that pilgrimage says: ‘His brain was teeming with
thoughts, he said one day, and his fingers would not
rest till they were written down. It was that same
evening that he came back to our house- boat
from some expedition, and found waiting for us,
where he had called and left them, his manuscript
lines on Kali the Mother.
22.
23. In this poem mother worshiping – means upliftment of India
means, Swami vivekanda was the ordent flower of kali Maa, and
swami is personified here with flower means, swami ji is
compared with flower which is here a visual imagery. But the
worshiping of mother is just not physical , it goes description in to
the spiritual sense .
24. He firmly believed that Kali Maa, “The shakti”
is the menifestation of three hundred million Indians. But she is a
rampage of darkness and destruction as Indian were still shocked in the
chaining of ignorance and illetracy . The darkness is the symbol of the
self imposed chain of slavery of the Indian people not only of the
English but also the resistance of accepting new. Here darkness also
visual
imagery.