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Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian and the only Indian to receive this honour. [1]
The subject matter of the poetry is the love of Radha and Krishna, on the banks of the Yamuna in Vrindavana; their secret trysts in the forests, Krishna's charms including his magic flute, the love of the gopis for Krishna, Radha's viraha on being separated from Krishna and her anguish on seeing him sporting with the other gopis. Much of the ...
The ten works, and the number of poems selected from each, are as follows: [3] Gitanjali - 69 poems (out of 157 poems in Song Offerings) Geetmalya - 17 poems; Naibadya - 16 poems; Kheya - 11 poems; Shishu - 3 poems; Chaitali - 1 poem; Smaran - 1 poem; Kalpana - 1 poem; Utsarga - 1 poem; Acholayatan - 1 poem; Song Offerings is a collection of ...
The poem is divided into 10 sections (pattu) of about 100 verses each. Each hundred is divided into 10 decads (tiruvaymoli) 28 of 10 verses (pasuram) each. A special feature of the poem is that it is in the style of an antati, that is, the last words of one verse forms the opening words of the next one. This is carried on through all 1,102 ...
Iraiyanar Akapporul is concerned with setting out the literary conventions that govern Tamil love poetry of the akam tradition. The conventions, as such, are taken from the poetics of the Sangam period. Thus a poem is a poetical snapshot of one instant in a relationship. This snapshot provides a glimpse into the lives of the couple which is in ...
But starting from the 18th century it is English which has been chosen by most of the native and international translators. This category will be relevant to major Bengali works of poetry rendered into English and also translators of Bengali poetry. A broader and more general category would be Bengali literature in translation.
However, the list starts with early Bengali poets to be followed by those who are identified not only with Indian sub-continent before partition in 1947, but also as founders of Bengali poetry. The list also contains separate sub-lists of "rhyme composers" and "song writers". Finally, there are two sub-sets of woman poets and poets in exile. [1]
Each poem is subdivided and formatted into pattu or tens, a style found in much of Tamil literature such as Tirukkural, Bhakti movement poetry and elsewhere. This may have been, according to Zvelebil, a Sanskrit literature (sataka style) influence on this work. [6] However, the poetry shows relatively few loan words from Sanskrit. [6]