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Rabindranath Tagore Final Poems

by Saranindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Wendy Barker
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Lyrical reflections on life's twilight; intense, profound.

If you appreciate poetry that delves deeply into human emotion and existential contemplation, Tagore's "Final Poems" can be a stirring read for you. Tagore's writing, in the face of his own mortality, reaches a level of poignancy and depth that few others have achieved. The essence of these poems is not just in their words, but in the profound silence between them - a testament to a brilliant mind contemplating the infinite at the very end of life's journey.

  • Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Rabindranath Tagore Final Poems

by Saranindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Wendy Barker
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ISBN: 9780807614884
Authors: Saranindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Wendy Barker
Publisher: George Braziller Inc.
Date of Publication: 2001-11-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Personal Development, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Biography, Inspirational, Personal Development, Mental Health
Goodreads rating: 4.25
(rated by 65 readers)

Description

The brilliant and immensely prolific Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is known the world over for his accomplished works in an astoundingly wide range of fiction, short stories, poetry, drama, and essays. During the final year of his life, while suffering from the painful illness that would eventually end in his death, Tagore completed four volumes of poetry that expressed the emotional turmoil of facing one's own imminent extinction. Appearing here for the first time in English is a selection of these extraordinary poems that captures as closely as possible the beauty and subtlety of Tagore's original Bengali verses. A marked departure from Tagore's earlier work, these poems are, as the translators say, "so compact that it is almost as if [he]...were going beyond words, as if language no longer suffices, and yet, of course, the language radiates meaning." Poised between life and death, Tagore is awed by the beauty of this world and glimpses in it the presence of the infinite. At other times, "alone by sorrow's last window," he is gripped by the sheer terror of experiencing the relentless approach of death. Tagore was so weak at the end that he had to dictate his poems. Although the pain was often excruciating and the fear and anger overwhelming, he still exulted in life. In these poems, from
 

Lyrical reflections on life's twilight; intense, profound.

If you appreciate poetry that delves deeply into human emotion and existential contemplation, Tagore's "Final Poems" can be a stirring read for you. Tagore's writing, in the face of his own mortality, reaches a level of poignancy and depth that few others have achieved. The essence of these poems is not just in their words, but in the profound silence between them - a testament to a brilliant mind contemplating the infinite at the very end of life's journey.

  • Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.