Poetry often expresses repression and catharsis, but Tagore's poems are unique. His poems are fresh, lively and full of philosophy, which is a valuable asset in the world poetry circle.
American poet Pound compared Tagore's poems to the stars in the sky. After understanding his poems, you will find that such praise is not exaggerated at all.
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The first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tagore 186 1 was born in an enlightened landlord family in Kolkata, Bangladesh, India on May 7th. His father is a religious philosopher and social reformer. Tagore didn't receive much formal education, and his knowledge was mainly obtained by hiring teachers from his family for strict education and self-study. At that time, Bangladesh was the cultural center of India, and his home was filled with a strong literary atmosphere.
Tagore 1878 went to England to study law in September, and 1880 returned to China in February. 1882 published a collection of lyric poems, Twilight, and officially embarked on the road of literary creation. 1In the 1990s, following his father's orders, he left the city and went to the countryside to manage his ancestral land, where he lived for ten years. 19 13 won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the collection of religious lyric poems "Gitanjali".
19 19, the Amritsar tragedy occurred in India where British colonialists brutally suppressed the anti-British people. He angrily resigned from the knighthood conferred on him by the British government. 1924, he visited China at the invitation of Mr. Liang Qichao and expressed extremely friendly feelings to the people of China. 1930, he visited the Soviet Union and sincerely praised its achievements.
He also visited many other countries in Europe, Asia and the United States. In 1930s, imperialism, militarism and fascism became increasingly rampant. Tagore was angry and strongly condemned their atrocities. On August 7th, Tagore died in Calcutta.
Although Tagore was versatile, he wrote more than 50 poems, more than a dozen novellas, more than 90 short stories and more than 20 plays, as well as a considerable number of prose works and other essays, but he was essentially a poet. Judging from his creative practice, poetry is indeed the most devoted and handy art form in his life.
Although he successfully used various literary genres, only poetry was regarded as his lifelong career. His poems are not only the precious wealth of the Indian people, but also cherished by people all over the world and have a wide influence in the world.
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Wandering between finite and infinite.
"Selected Poems of Tagore * * *" contains many poems of this poet-now introduce the main contents of these poems to readers:
Story. This is an extremely important collection of Bengali narrative poems in Tagore's early poetry creation, and it has always been regarded as one of the best spiritual heritages left by Tagore to the Indian people. The collection of poems includes 24 poems and 1 ordered poems, which was first published in 1900. At that time, the poet was not only in the stage of creative blowout, but also in the period of surging patriotic passion.
Poems are mainly based on historical legends in ancient Indian books, including Buddhist stories, Hindu stories and Sikh stories, as well as the legend of heroes of Rajput and Malata people. The poet enthusiastically praised the heroic dedication of national heroes to resist foreign invasion. This collection of poems greatly inspired the Indian people's will to resist the British colonists at that time, and enhanced their national self-confidence and national pride.
Rabindranath tagorelli This collection of English religious lyrics is Tagore's masterpiece. These poems were translated by the poet from his collection of Bengali poems of the same name and several other collections of Bengali religious lyric poems. Bengali Chittaglia has a rigorous rhythm, while English Chittaglia takes prose as its body.
Tagore's religious philosophy mainly comes from Upanishads philosophy in ancient India and Vishnu theory in Hinduism. This is an idea similar to pantheism. Upanishads philosophy holds that all things have the same origin and come from Brahma. It also believes that everything, like everything, belongs to Brahma. In other words, Brahma is the highest essence and reality of the universe. Everything in the universe originates from the Vatican, exists in the Vatican and is unified in the Vatican.
The consciousness of nature, society, country and people is the expression of this cosmic spirit and the different forms of its existence. Tagore believes that Brahma is infinite, while the phenomenal world and human beings are limited. The human soul and the universal spirit have substantial identity. Reaching Brahma is the highest spiritual realm pursued by the poet, and realizing infinite happiness in "finiteness" is the motif of his religious lyric poetry creation.
The description of God's image in nature and human society in Poems contains realistic factors and exudes a strong flavor of life. In art, the language of poetry is simple and natural, fresh and beautiful; Passionate and sincere feelings, subtle and delicate; The artistic conception is quiet and profound, which is intriguing; Vivid, concrete and lively. Poetry anthology combines philosophy and poetry, which fully embodies the true nature of Tagore's poets and philosophers.
Gitanjali is such a collection of lyric poems that express the poet's religious philosophy by visual art. The Gardener's Collection is a collection of English lyric poems, About Love and Life, with prose style. They are poems belonging to Tagore's early creative stage. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to find that the poems in this collection are full of youthful and touching vitality, shining with beautiful colors of love.
Crescent Moon is Tagore's collection of English prose poems with the theme of children's life and interests. These poems were translated by the poet from his Bengali poetry collection Children's Collection published in 1903. The naive child and loving mother in the poem are the poet's beloved sons and wives. Poetry reflects the poet's warm and happy family life.
This collection of children's poems is regarded as an unparalleled artistic treasure in world literature. Also deeply loved by generations of readers in China. According to children's logic, the poet described children's touching patterns and absurd ideas with simple language, distinctive style and gorgeous metaphors.
Birds is a philosophical collection of English proverbs. * * * Collected 325 poems, first published in 19 16. Part of it was translated by the poet from his own Bengali aphorism collection "Broken Jade Collection" (1899), and the other part was an impromptu English poem written by the poet during his visit to Japan in 19 16. Tagore's works always embody the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, although he paid attention to different objects in different stages of his life's poetry creation.
His love for India's beautiful mountains and rivers, his love for children and his thinking about philosophy have become important contents of his poetry creation. His poetic language is simple and natural, fresh and beautiful; Passionate and sincere feelings, subtle and delicate; The image is quiet and profound and thought-provoking; Metaphor is novel and interesting. His poetry collections often combine philosophy with poetry.
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Insist on childlike innocence
Poetry is extremely difficult to translate. The translators of this anthology, Bing Xin, Shi Zhen, Yan Wu and Tang Yongkuan, are all outstanding figures in the field of Chinese literature and translation. Their translation is a masterpiece of culture and an excellent translation. Tagore's poems have exerted a great influence on contemporary readers and writers in China, and their translation is indispensable.
Only Tagore can cultivate children's imagination by insisting on kindness, confiding and childlike innocence. The creation of modern poetry is mostly a catharsis of real life. Poetry, as a refined language, needs experience and thinking. Therefore, most good poems are melancholy and depressing. Tagore's greatness lies in his pursuit and persistence in kindness in the face of national aggression and unbearable society at that time.
The "New Moon Collection" unit in this book is Tagore's poems specially written for children. The creation of these poems is the product of Tagore's insistence on listening to children's true thoughts. All his emotional expressions are naturally revealed in a childlike way, so that he can impress children and adults who used to be children. -End-