Approaching Classics: Interpreting Tagore's Poems
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you will also miss the stars.
This poem is often regarded as the most brilliant one in Tagore's Birds. The language is simple but intriguing. The sun, the moon and the stars are very common phenomena in life, but the poet realized the true meaning of life with his unique sensitivity: it is regrettable to lose some beautiful things, but if we just indulge in them, we will only miss and lose more. This poem not only tells people how to make a comeback in the face of failure and frustration, but also embodies the poet's positive attitude towards life and broad-minded optimism. Tagore, a poet, combined life situation with philosophy in essence, and endowed him with artistic charm with the poet's pen, so that the human body could understand its profound meaning.
The bird wants to be a cloud, and the cloud wants to be a bird.
The general idea of this sentence is: everyone has his own unique advantages and admires others. Don't be blinded by the fantasy in front of you! Don't just see the advantages of others and forget your own advantages, and lose yourself! You should find yourself! In the real society, there will always be people who are dissatisfied with themselves and complain, and always blindly pursue other people's forms. In fact, they just didn't find their own characteristics and advantages. Perhaps, when you are envious of others, others are envious of you. So, just be yourself! To discover and find your own characteristics, don't lose yourself by blindly pursuing other people's forms, but believe in yourself!
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
Tagore elegantly and implicitly expressed the author's outlook on life and world view. Summer flowers are a symbol of vitality. Life is like summer flowers. Life should be as gorgeous and vigorous as summer flowers, strive to shine and make contributions to society. Autumn leaves, sadness, melancholy, sadness, quietness, people's death, as long as they are as quiet as autumn leaves, there is no need to be vigorous.
The furthest distance in the world is not the ends of the earth, but when I stand in front of you, you don't know that I love you.
This sentence is short and pithy, which makes people want to read it again and then make people think deeply. What is the farthest distance in the world? Tagore's words made me understand that the hidden soul between people is the farthest distance in the world. Everyone relies on mutual understanding and communication within each other to maintain each other and depend on each other. If one day, human beings no longer have this special communication with their companions, they will be left out in the cold and excluded. Aren't you sad? Isn't this the furthest distance in the world?
Honor makes me feel ashamed, because I secretly beg for it.
In today's society, many people strive for many honors while working hard, thus neglecting their relatives, friends, lovers and wives. In this pyramid society, people are trying to climb up. Climb all the time, trying to climb to the top of the mountain and look down on the world. At this time, the temptation of honor made them lose their conscience, even if they climbed on others' shoulders. But when they are old, they will understand that they have been intrigued all their lives and tried their best to win honor. When they are young, they don't enjoy life. Now that they are old, they can only grow old with a bunch of honors, and there is no one around. And these honors will not be brought into the coffin after all, and you will soon be forgotten by the world. Although honor can make you famous and bring you a lot of material life, you should not take honor too seriously, or you will get stuck in a quagmire. God said to man, "I heal you, so I hurt you, and I love you, so I punish you." This sentence seems contradictory from the literal meaning, but it is not. It reveals a profound truth: setbacks can temper your will, and hardships can make you stronger. Life can't be smooth sailing, so don't be sad for the injustice of fate. In fact, fate is fair to everyone. You should thank it for making you experience so many ups and downs, correcting your own shortcomings, becoming more perfect and bringing you closer to success. As Tagore said, setbacks and bumps actually help you a lot.