INTRODUCTION
Rabindranath Tagore- poet, short story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter – was born in a rich aristocratic family in Calcutta. He was the son of the religious reformer, Debendranath Tagore. He began to write verses early in life and after his studies in England, he returned to India in the late 1860s. He founded an experimental school in rural West Bengal at Shantiniketan, where he sought to blend the best in the Indian and Western traditions. Years of sadness arising from the death of his wife and two children are reflected in his later poetry. His book Gitanjali, containing his English prose translations of poems from several of his Bengali verse collections won him the Nobel Prize in 1913.
Most of his finest short stories examine ‘humble lives and their small miseries’. These aspects have been admirably bought out in film adaptations by the director Satyajit Ray. Tagore’s novels, though less …show more content…
It revolves around the theme of longing and separation. The postmaster is brought to a remote village, where he finds himself lonely and needs somebody to share his feelings. He can’t stand the solitude of village and longs for the noises of traffic and life in Calcutta. In the post office he does not have much work to do and tries to pacify his longing emotions by writing poetry. Ratan is an orphan girl who hankers for love and affection. She helps the postmaster by doing his household work while he showed his concern by giving language lessons. Their relationship grew in spite of their different social status. Human relations know no barriers. When the postmaster resigns from his job, Ratan’s intimate feelings become evident. He failed to understand them. He took refuge in the thought that there are many separations and many deaths in life. On the other hand, the poor girl is not in a position to reason. She sinks deeper into hope, which the author describes as a common human
Rabindranath Tagore- poet, short story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter – was born in a rich aristocratic family in Calcutta. He was the son of the religious reformer, Debendranath Tagore. He began to write verses early in life and after his studies in England, he returned to India in the late 1860s. He founded an experimental school in rural West Bengal at Shantiniketan, where he sought to blend the best in the Indian and Western traditions. Years of sadness arising from the death of his wife and two children are reflected in his later poetry. His book Gitanjali, containing his English prose translations of poems from several of his Bengali verse collections won him the Nobel Prize in 1913.
Most of his finest short stories examine ‘humble lives and their small miseries’. These aspects have been admirably bought out in film adaptations by the director Satyajit Ray. Tagore’s novels, though less …show more content…
It revolves around the theme of longing and separation. The postmaster is brought to a remote village, where he finds himself lonely and needs somebody to share his feelings. He can’t stand the solitude of village and longs for the noises of traffic and life in Calcutta. In the post office he does not have much work to do and tries to pacify his longing emotions by writing poetry. Ratan is an orphan girl who hankers for love and affection. She helps the postmaster by doing his household work while he showed his concern by giving language lessons. Their relationship grew in spite of their different social status. Human relations know no barriers. When the postmaster resigns from his job, Ratan’s intimate feelings become evident. He failed to understand them. He took refuge in the thought that there are many separations and many deaths in life. On the other hand, the poor girl is not in a position to reason. She sinks deeper into hope, which the author describes as a common human