Overview of the content of "Selected Poems of Tagore": "Selected Poems of Tagore" collects works from the poet's six collections of poems and some scattered but important poems in his later years. These six poetry collections are "Selected Poems", "Story Poems", "Gitanjali", "New Moon Collection", "Gardener Collection", and "Bird Collection". The main contents of these six collections of poems are as follows: (1) "Selected Poems": "Selected Poems" is a very important collection of English poems by Rabindranath Tagore. It contains 131 poems (including preface poems) and is published by International University Press. It was published the year after the poet's death. The content is divided into three types: religious lyric poetry, realistic poetry and political lyric poetry. Political lyric poetry occupies a prominent position, which expresses the poet's awe-inspiring righteousness in upholding justice and hating evil. Five poems were selected from "Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore".
(2) "Story Poems": "Story Poems" is a collection of Bengali narrative poems published by Tagore in 1900. It contains 25 poems (including preface poems), all of "Selected Poems of Tagore" Included. The content is based on historical legends from ancient Indian classics. There are Buddhist stories, Hindu stories, and heroic legends of the Rajputs and Marathas. The poet enthusiastically praised the heroic sacrifice of the national heroes in resisting the invasion of aliens. In the stories of Buddhism and Hinduism, the poets' promotion of people-oriented principles and their praise of truth, goodness and beauty are shown.
This collection of poems greatly inspired the Indian people's will to fight against the British colonists and enhanced the Indian people's national self-confidence and national pride.
(3) "Gitanjali": "Gitanjali" is Rabindranath Tagore's masterpiece and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. "Gitanjali" means "poem offering" in Indian. It contains 103 short poems (all included in "Selected Poems"). It is a collection of religious lyric poems and a collection of philosophical poems. Tagore used poetry to praise the long history, rich art, beautiful mountains and rivers of his motherland, and the hard-working and brave Indian people. He expressed the author's love for the motherland, pursuit of ideals, yearning for freedom, love, childlike innocence and Praise of maternal love.
(4) "New Moon Collection": "New Moon Collection" is a collection of prose poems with the theme of children's life and interests, with 40 poems (all included in "Selected Poems"), First published in 1913. The poet expresses his pursuit of the ideal world with simple and pure emotions, innocent childlike innocence, and bright and magnificent language with the memory of his deceased wife, his two daughters who died young, and the memories of his own childhood. Among the representative works are "The Way of Children", "Children's World" and "Children's Angels".
(5) "The Gardener's Collection": "The Gardener's Collection" is a collection of lyric poems "about love and life", with a total of 85 prose poems (all included in "Selected Poems"). Through the description of various scenes of love, tryst, lovesickness, pursuit, expectation, wedding and parting, the poem delicately expresses the joy, distress and sorrow of love between men and women, and also expresses the poet's exploration and pursuit of life.
(6) "The Collection of Flying Birds": "The Collection of Flying Birds" is a collection of philosophical aphorisms and poems, with a total of 325 poems (all included in "Selected Poems"). These poems were written by Tagore during the anti-British political movement, when he had differences of opinion with Mahatma Gandhi and returned to semi-seclusion in the countryside. These short poems range from one or two lines to three or four lines. They are concise and concise, meaningful and novel, and have endless implications. Tagore compared these small poems to the footprints of flying birds, which record the shining inspirations in the poet's personal life.
The important poems in his later years are mainly selected from 1921 to mid-1941, among which "Question", No. 18 of "Bianyan Collection" and No. 10 of "Birthday Collection" are the poet's famous works in his later years. "Question" expresses strong doubts about the theory of religious pan-love. The 18th poem in "Border Collection" was written in the era of rampant fascism. The poet, who was nearly eighty years old, appealed to people with great righteousness: "Get ready to fight and resist the beast in human skin!" The 10th poem in "Birthday Collection" is The final work of "Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore". The poet looks back and reflects on his life in this poem.