24:I[197881,["/_next/static/chunks/59eab9ac4bdd502c.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/7f542e29850d5a34.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/236a773bf983a6e6.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/73ec2f460c58b917.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/44b741cc62655314.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/49c5a7a27f6e13eb.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/391c4b1557451991.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/77ffa9b0397aa5e9.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/e84c26bbe04ad627.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/3a366c3516387c27.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9","/_next/static/chunks/c116acaae1f2abb9.js?dpl=dpl_DiiNkezUyatBaiWrD9gVH9i4a8Q9"],"default"] 25:T4e1,This page concludes W.B. Yeats's introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. Yeats uses a beautiful, metaphorical image of children playing on a beach to illustrate the pure, unburdened spirit of Tagore's poetry, contrasting the innocent play of children with the calculated, heavy labors of the adult world. xvi

GITANJALI

...from leaves, they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast ocean original: "deep". Children play on the seashore of worlds. They do not know how to swim, and they do not know how to cast nets. Pearl fishers dive for pearls, and merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They do not seek hidden treasure, and they do not know how to cast nets.” ->W. B. YEATS.<- *September 1912.* Gitanjali, W. B. Yeats, Introduction, seashore of worlds, poetry

W. B. Yeats concludes his introduction by using the metaphor of children playing on a seashore to represent the spiritual innocence and simplicity found in Tagore's poetry.

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