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Digvijay Pandya, Lovely Professional University Unit 10: Beggarly Heart by Rabindranath Tagore
Unit 10: Beggarly Heart by Rabindranath Tagore Notes
CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
10.1 Music
10.2 Paintings
10.3 Novels
10.4 Stories
10.5 Poetry
10.6 Politics
10.7 Santiniketan and Visva-Bharati
10.8 Impact
10.9 Analysis of Tagore and His Works
10.10 Tagore: A Poet of Western Romantic and Eastern Mystical Tradition
10.11 Beggarly Heart
10.11.1 Summary of the Poem
10.11.2 Critical Analysis
10.12 Summary
10.13 Keywords
10.14 Review Questions
10.15 Further Readings
Objectives
After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Know more about Rabindranath Tagore
Analyse Tagore's writing style and works
Explain Romantic influence on Tagore
Understand Tagore’s poem ‘Beggarly Heart’
Introduction
Rabindranath Thakur, anglicised to Tagore (7 May 1861–7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev,
was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and
its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation, his poetry was viewed as spiritual and
mercurial; however, his “elegant prose and magical poetry” remain largely unknown outside
Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into
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