Chapter 64 indian poem saint tagore

On the other side of the Himalayas, the country called India, in our minds, is always covered with a veil of magic, beauty, and even undetectable.India used to be our "Western Paradise", a place where Chinese people pilgrimage to learn Buddhist scriptures, and a paradise for Buddhist believers and fantasists to transcend their souls. It is conceivable how many outstanding characters will be born in this magical land!However, there are probably only two people the Chinese are most familiar with: one is Gandhi and the other is Tagore.Among these two great men, Tagore seems to be closer to us, more specific, and more uniquely charming.

"Tagore is a great poet, philosopher, patriot and artist, and is deeply respected by the Chinese people." This is the inscription written by Premier Zhou Enlai at the International University founded by Tagore when he visited India in 1957.This is also a portrayal of Tagore's life. In 1861, Tagore was born in a landlord class family in Calcutta, India.His father was a well-known philosopher and religious reformer in India.He has 6 older brothers, some of whom devoted themselves to the Indian Renaissance, while others worked for social improvement.Through his father's connection, he joined a center of activity in the intelligentsia of Calcutta at the time.Growing up in such an environment had a profound impact on Tagore's thoughts and made him influenced by literature since he was a child.Tagore started writing poetry at the age of 8, and published the narrative poem "The Poet's Story" at the age of 17.He once studied law at the University of London, but during this time, he spent most of his time studying English literature and Western music.After returning to China, Tagore advocated combining the ancient culture of India with the culture of Western Europe to create a higher culture.During this process, he wrote many works, including "Evening Songs" and "Morning Songs", which mostly expressed his inner feelings and described the gorgeous nature. In 1886, he published a collection of poems.Tagore's early poems are simple and natural, from content to form, they have created a new generation of poetry.

In 1890, Tagore took over his father's estate and moved to the countryside.He often went boating on the river, enjoyed the beautiful lakes and mountains, and had extensive contact with the rural society. He saw the tyranny of the British colonists and landlords with his own eyes, and deeply sympathized with the suffering of the farmers.He wrote many poems and short stories, which sincerely reflected the suffering life of the Indian people, created the image of poor and simple laborers, and accused and exposed the cruel and inhuman colonial system. In 1901, Tagore left the manor to start a school in Sandy Niktan.With the purpose of transforming the society, he taught in person, and enthusiastically hoped that the younger generation could inherit the Indian national culture and devote themselves to the transformation of the countryside. In 1921, the school was named International University.

Tagore actively participated in the national independence movement in India. In 1905, he participated in an anti-British demonstration in Calcutta singing his own patriotic songs, and delivered a speech denouncing the crimes of British colonial rule. In 1919, in order to protest the massacre of unarmed Indian people by the British colonialists, he wrote to the British Governor, announcing that he would give up the title of baronet granted to him by the British. Tagore tirelessly pursued the road to India's national independence.He traveled around the world, inspecting the conditions of various countries, in order to learn some useful experience for national independence.He has been to England, France, the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union and, in 1924, China.He expressed deep sympathy for the suffering Chinese people, saying: "In Asia, we must unite." He was deeply attracted by Chinese culture, and said affectionately: "I believe that my previous life must be It's a Chinese."

Tagore's life is mainly engaged in literary and artistic creation.His poems are popular in India, and he is known as India's "Poem Saint". In 1913, he published a collection of poems, expressing the poet's passion for loving the motherland and the people as he communicated with God.Later, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for this collection of poems, the first oriental writer to win this award.Tagore's other works, such as , etc. are also deeply loved by people.Tagore's poems have a fresh style, profound artistic conception and fluent language, showing the poet's love for life and concern for the fate of the motherland, and they are full of philosophy.In addition to poems, Tagore also wrote novels, and his representative novels are "Gola", etc.

Tagore's creative career lasted more than 60 years.He is versatile and has written more than 50 collections of poems, 12 novellas, more than 30 prose works, more than 20 plays, and more than 100 short stories in his life.He can also paint and compose music, and he has painted more than 1,500 paintings and composed more than 2,000 songs in his life.His song "The Will of the People" was adopted as the national anthem of India in 1950. The great poet Pound exclaimed when he heard another great poet Yeats recite Tagore's poems: this is the moment for "the appearance of a great poet, a man who is greater than any of us."Almost all critics and giants in the poetry circle respect him as a master.