In western countries, Tagore is generally regarded as a poet, but rarely regarded as a philosopher, but in India, the two are often the same. His poems contain profound religious and philosophical views. For Tagore, his poems are his gifts to God, and he himself is the pursuer of God. His poems enjoy an epic status in India. He himself is regarded as a saint by many Hindus.
Literary achievements
In addition to poetry, Tagore wrote novels, essays, travel notes, plays and more than 2,000 songs. His poems are mainly written in Bengali, where his poems are very popular. His prose mainly focuses on society, politics and education, while his poems mainly describe nature and life besides religious content. In Tagore's poems, life itself and its diversity are the reasons for joy. At the same time, his love (including patriotism) is also one of the contents of his poems.
Tagore's poems are used in India's national anthem "The Will of the People" and Bangladesh's national anthem "Golden Bangladesh". Wilfred Owen and William Butler Yeats were deeply moved by his poems. With the encouragement of Ye Zhi, Tagore translated his Jitan Cangli into English, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature of 19 13.
Tagore is the founder of novellas and short stories in modern India. Most of his novels are set in the Bengal Valley, with the theme of attacking colonial rule and denouncing feudal moral customs. The Sun and Dark Clouds, The Hungry Stone and Letter from My Wife are all masterpieces that people will always love. The world agrees that the two novels, Sunken Ship and Gora, are the masterpieces of Tagore's novels and the greatest novels in Bengali.
Shipwreck reveals the sharp contradiction between the feudal marriage system and young men and women fighting for marriage autonomy through the tortuous and complicated love story of young college student Luo Meixi, and criticizes the arranged marriage and the bad habit that young men and women are not allowed to meet before marriage. Gora, on the other hand, puts forward that the patriotic theme is to eliminate religious prejudice and realize the liberation of all ethnic groups by focusing on shaping the image of the patriotic intellectual Gora. The problems raised by the two novels were urgent problems in Indian society at that time, which had important practical significance.
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During his study in Japan, Wang Baiyuan, a poet in the Japanese occupation era, became interested in the literature and philosophy of Indian poet Tagore, and was also interested in Gandhi's Indian independence movement, the China revolutionary movement led by Sun Yat-sen, and the socialist movement, and placed high hopes on it. He wrote the poet Tagore in 1927, and Gandhi and India's independence movement in 1930. Both articles regard India's Renaissance and independence movement as a precursor for Asia to get rid of imperialism.
Wang Baiyuan's masterpiece The Road to Thorns, a collection of Japanese poems, was influenced by Tagore's philosophical thought and poetic style of "Brahma is the only one".
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Tagore's thought is based on pantheism in ancient India. In Upanishads and Praise for God, he absorbed the philosophical thoughts of the unity of God and man and the blending of man and me, and affirmed and praised life in poetic language. In his poems, Tagore also expressed his despair and sorrow for the war, but his hope for peace had no political factors. He hopes that all people can live in a perfect and peaceful world.