RABINDRANATH TAGORE GITANJALI :- MAIN THEMES

1) . GITANJALI : MAIN THEMES : - 
  • EXPRESSION OF PERMANENT HUMAN                 IMPULSES:  -                                                                          GITANJALI MEANS SONG OFFERING AND IN THE WORDS OF DR.RADHA KRISHNAN HE POEMS OF  THE GITNJALI ARE OFFERING OF THE FINITE TO THE INFINITE'' IT IS POETRY OF THE HIGHNEST ORDER, POETRY WHICH VERY NEARLY APPROACHES THE CONDITION OF PROPHECY. IN THE WORDS OF T.S ELIOT IT IS GREAT POETRY WHICH, EXPRESSES IN PERFECT LANGUAGE PERMANENT HUMAN IMPULSES'', AND THUS BRINGS RANGE CONSOLATION TO THE HUMAN HEART. IN SUCH WORKS POETRY BECOMES A EVELATION, AN INCANTATION, THAT FLASHES OPEN THE INNER REALITY. IT IS POETRY IN WHICH MEN CONVERSE WITH .

  •   THE FOUR BASIC THEME : -                                                                                   AS A MATTER OF FACT GITANJALI IS A GREAT WORK OF ART, AND A SUCH A NUMBER AF THEME AND IDEAS ARE WOMEN TOGETHER TO MAKE UP ITS COMPLEX TEXTURE. ITS HUNDRED AND IDEAS ODD LYRICS EXPLORE .                                                       
  •   1)THE RELATIONSHIP OF GOD AND THE HUMAN  SOUL: -                                                         
  •    2)OF GOD AND NATURE : -                                                                                                                   
  •   3)OF NATURE AND THE HUMAN SOUL AND:-                                                                              
  •  4)OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL AND HUMANITY:-                                                                                  THESE FOUR THEMES ARE NOT KEPT STRICTLY SEPARATE, HEY FREQUENTLY RUN INTO EACH OTHER, FUSE AND MINGLE.                                                                              
  •   1) THE THEME OF DEVOTION :ORIGINALITY OF TREATMENT:-                                                                                                                                                              THE GITANJALI IS DEVOTIONAL IN EXPRESSES THE YEARING OF THE DEVOTEE FOR  RE -UNION WITH THE DIVINE.IT IS IN THE TRADITION OF THE DEVOTIONAL POETRY OF INDIA , BUT IT FINDS A NEW AND ORIGINAL TREATMENT . THAT IS WHY .GITANJALI CREATED SUCH A SENSATION IN THE WEST .WHEN IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ,ABBE BREMOND DECLARED THAT PURE POETRY ASPIRES TO A CONDITION OF PRAYER .                                                                                                                                                                                                                     T                                                                                                                                                                             
  •  2) HUMANISM -INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY : -                                                                                                                                                         ALONG WITH THE  RELATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL  SOUL WITH OTHER MAN IS ALSO EXPLORED ,TAGORE'S HUMANISM IS VOICED FORCEFULLY IN A NUMBER OF LYRICS .GOD IS NOT TO BE FOUND IN THE TEMPLE BUT WITH THE LOWLIEST OF LOW .IDOLATRY AND BLIND WORSHIP ARE CASTIGATED_                                  LEAVE THIS CHANTING AND SINGING AND TELLING OF                                                                                   BEADS !WHOM DOST THOU WORSHIP IN THIS LONELY                                                  DARK CORNER OF A TEMPLE WITH DOORS ALL SHUT?                                                    OPEN THIN EYES AND SEE THY GOD IS OT BEFORE THEE !                   THE TILLER THE STONE BREAKER THE HONEST LABOURER WORKING IN THE SPIRIT OF THE GITA GOD IS WITH THEM . THE IDEA "OF ESCAPE" FROM WORLDS DUTIES IS CONDEMNED BY THE POET ;                                                                                                           DELIVERANCE ? WERE IS THIS DELIVERANCE TO BE                                                        FOUND ?OUR MASTER HIM SELF HAS JOYFULLY TAKEN                                                 HIM THE BONDS OF CREATION ;HE IS BOUND WITH                                                        US ALL FOR EVER .                                                                                            "IF SOME PEOPLE ARE BLIND AND SEEK HIM IN THE WRONG PLACES OR IN THE WRONG WAY OTHERS ARE  CRUSHED BY THEIR OWN COWARDICE AND DARE NOT SEIZE THE FREEDOM THAT WOULD END THEIR MISERY"                                                                 MY DEBTS LARGE MY FAILURES GREAT MY SHAME                                                    SECRET AND HEAVY YET WHEN I CAME TO ASK FOR MY                                            GOOD  I QUAKE IN FEAR LEST MY PRAYER BE GRANTED .                  3) MAN GOD AND NATURE :-                                                                 IN A NUMBER OF POEMS DEVOTIONAL POETRY MINGLES WITH THE POETRY OF NATURE POETRY IN WHICH THE POET EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP OF GOD AND NATURE .NATURE IS THE VAST DIVINE AND HUMAN ETERNALLY SEEK EACH OTHER  " IN THE ACHING YEARNING OF THE SOUL  JOY IS THE TOUCHED WITH PAIN AND IS TRANSMUTED  INTO JOY AS MYSTICAL UNION TAKES PLACE " A RECURRENT THOUGHT IS THAT GODS LOVE AND JOY EVER STREAM THROUGH  NATURES RAPTUROUS FORMS TO ENTICE THE SOUL TO REALIZE MYSTERY OF THAT REVELATION IS TO BE UNITED WITH HIM " INDEED THERE IS NO END  TO THE AMAZING DIVERSITY OF THE CENTRAL NOTE OF ABSOLUTE UNISON THAT TAKES IN THE THREE WORLDS NATURE AND MAN . THEIR EXPRESSION IS AS RICHLY VARIED AS THE SENSE OF DYNAMIC HARMONY IS PROFOUND .AND HARMONY HAS BEEN WRESTLED FOR AND POET  WHO HAD PASSED NOT LONG BACK THROUGH HE WORST CALAMITIES THAT FLESH IS THEIR TO SOCIAL CALUMNY RIDICULE AND INSULT DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT .THE MAN HAS SUFFERED . THE POET CONQUERS                                                                                                                                                            4) THE THEME OF DEATH : -                                                                 QUITE NATURALLY TOWARDS THE END OF HIS "SONG - SUFFERING " THE POETS THOUGHTS  TURN   TO DEATH AND THE THEME OF DEATH FINDS A MOST VARIED TREATMENT TO THE POET, DEATH IS NOT IN OBJECT OF FEAR . RATHER HE  WELCOMES  IT JOYFULLY 'FOR  A IT IS THE GATE WAY THROUGH WITH ALONE UNION WITH THE ETERNAL IS POSSIBLE . THIS CREATION OF MYRIAD COLOURS AND SHAPES IS THE CURTAIN  THAT  SEPARATES THE POET FROM HIS MAKER  AND IT BIS DEATH ALONE WHICH RENDS ASUNDER THE VEIL AND USHERS IN THE POET IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DIVINE . THE POET THEREFORE  WELCOMES THIS KING OF THE FEARFUL NIGHT . IT IS GUEST WHO MUST BE WELCOMED WITH AN OPEN HAND . DEATH MAY BE TERRIBLE TO LOOK AT BUT IT LEADS THE HUM AN SOUL TO ITS TRYST WITH THE ETERNAL .                                           DEATH IS NOT THE END OR CESSATION OF LIFE IT IS THE RENEWAL OF LIFE . IN GITANJALI -74 LIFE IS SPOKEN OF AS THE PITCHER WHICH IS FILLED AGAIN AND THROUGH DEATH .  THERE IS A CONSTANT RHYTHM OF BIRTH  DEATH RE BIRTH AND DEATH IS ONLY A PHASE OF THIS RHYTHM . DEATH IS THE  SERVANT OF THE DIVINE  HIS MESSENGER  WHOM THE WILL  WELCOME WHEN HE COMES AND WHOSE CALL WE HILL OBEY . DEATH IS THE LAST FULFILMENT OF LIFE IS CONSUMMATED AND FULFILLED IN DEATH AS THE BRIDE   IS  FULFILLED THROUGH HER UNION WITH THE  BRIDEGROOM   ( GITANJALI - 91 ) IN (GITANJALI 92 ) WE ARE TOLD THAT IT IS ONLY THROUGH  DEATH THAT SPIRITUAL TRUTHS CAN BE REALISED AND ONE CAN SEE INTO THE HEART OF THINGS . DEATH IS NECESSARY FOR A REALISATION OF THE VALUE OF MEANEST LIVES . THE POET THEREFORE GOES TO MEET DEATH WITH WEDDING GARLAND HID NECK  AS A BRIDEGROOM GOES TO MEET HIS BRIDE ( GITANJALI - 97 ) . DEATH IS WELCOME FOR IT ALONE CAN TAKE HIM TO THE GREAT AUDIENCE HALL WERE THE  DIVINE SITS IN ALL HIS MAJESTY AND GLORY ( GITANJALI -100)                                                                                                                                                                              INFINITE IN THEIR VARIETY ARE THE TUNES WHICH THE POET PLAYS ON A SINGLE HARP .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Comments

  1. Ram MitalSeptember 3, 2019 at 1:36 AM

    Well done! But if it is in small letters then it will be more impressive. Otherwise good content. Good luck!

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  2. Vinu balakrishnanMay 24, 2020 at 7:23 AM

    Good note

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  3. UnknownJune 12, 2021 at 9:45 AM

    I find in Tagore's" Gitanjali" a profound depth of Vaishnavism drilled into the corpus of all poems that harp on the themes of the self and the superself.It's a monumental poem with sprinkles with unbroken lyricism that punctuated and ordenates the whole book. Tagore desrvedly received the Nobel Prize for this phalanx ofpoems.

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  4. UnknownJanuary 30, 2022 at 8:45 AM

    Better answer

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