"The School of Flowers" is selected from Rabindranath Tagore's children's prose collection "New Moon Collection".
"The School of Flowers" is selected from Rabindranath Tagore's prose poem "New Moon Collection". It is a newly selected text for the Chinese textbook for the third grade of the People's Education Press (2018 autumn revised edition), and Zhang Lei is specially invited to Recording, the original text is as follows:
When thunderclouds roar in the sky and June showers fall, the moist east wind passes through the wilderness and plays the flute in the bamboo forest.
So, groups of flowers suddenly ran out from unknown places, dancing and carnivaling on the grass.
Mom, I really think those flowers go to school underground.
They do their homework behind closed doors. If they want to come out to play before school, their teacher will make them stand in the corner.
When the rain comes, they take a holiday.
The branches touched each other in the forest, the green leaves rustled in the strong wind, and the thunderclouds clapped their hands. At this time, the flower children rushed out wearing purple, yellow, and white clothes.
Did you know, mom, their home is in the sky, where the stars live.
Don't you see how anxious they are to get there? Don't you know why they are in such a hurry?
I can naturally guess who they are raising their arms to. They also have their mothers, just like I have my own mother.
Creative background
Between 1908 and 1919, the Indian national liberation movement fell into a low ebb. Tagore had differences of opinion with the leaders of the National Congress Party who led the national autonomy movement, mainly reflected on rural issues, religious origins, and methods of struggle. Therefore, Tagore withdrew from the movement and returned to his hometown of Holy Land Niketan in 1907 to engage in ethnic education. and literary and artistic creation.
During this period, he published a series of poems, novels, plays, songs, letters and essays. Among them, his philosophical poems can be said to represent the poet's ideological characteristics at this stage:
That is, through religion, philosophy, ethics and morality, etc., the task of social transformation is achieved, and love is the core of human beings. social ideal. "New Moon Collection" is a product of promoting human love. The poems in "New Moon Collection" mainly come from Tagore's Bengali poetry collection "Children's Collection" published in 1903, as well as some English poems.