Gitanjali (Song Offerings)

"...poets, but none who are his equal; we call this the era of Rabindranath original: "Rabindra Nath." Referring to Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941).. No poet in Europe seems as famous to me as he is among us. He is as talented in music as he is in poetry, and his songs are sung from western India into Myanmar original: "Burmah." The country's name was officially changed to Myanmar in 1989. wherever Bengali An Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Bengal region of South Asia. is spoken. He was already famous at nineteen when he wrote his first novel, and plays he wrote when he was only slightly older are still performed in Kolkata original: "Calcutta." The city was officially renamed Kolkata in 2001.."

"I greatly admire the completeness of his life. When he was very young, he wrote much about nature; he would sit all day in his garden. From about his twenty-fifth to his thirty-fifth year—when he experienced a great sorrow—he wrote the most beautiful love poetry in our language." Then he said with deep emotion, "Words can never express what I owed to his love poetry when I was seventeen. After that, his art grew deeper; it became religious and philosophical. All the aspirations of humanity are found in his hymns. He is the first among our saints who has not refused to participate in the world, but has spoken from the experience of life itself, and that is why we give him our love."

I may have slightly altered his well-chosen words in my memory, but I have not changed his meaning. He continued, "A little while ago, he was scheduled to lead a religious service in one of our churches—we of the Brahmo Samaj original: "Brahma Samaj." A monotheistic reformist movement within Hinduism that emerged during the Bengal Renaissance. use your English word 'church'—and it was the largest one in Kolkata. Not only was it crowded, with people even standing in the window frames, but the streets were nearly impassable because of the crowds."