-Our reading and assignments this week are quite manageable, so this is a good week to catch up on any assignments you’ve missed.
-Read Rabindranath Tagore’s short story “Punishment” (in Volume E of your Norton Anthology). Think about how you might establish a connection between Tagore’s story and another work we’ve read this semester. You may see a stylistic issue that joins the two texts, a character who faces similar issues, or textual elements that differ from each other in important ways; the type of connection you identify is entirely up to you! In a blog post of 300-400 words, explore the connection(s) you see between the two texts. Please be sure to include quotations from both texts in your response. Your post should be shared by Wednesday, April 21st
–Tagore’s Background and Context – In preparation for our conversation about “Punishment”, please either read the introduction to this work in the Norton Anthology or do your own Google-ing about Rabindranath Tagore and, in a comment on this post, please share one piece of information that you think is important or interesting to help us contextualize his work. Please read through any comments that precede yours. You may not repeat something someone else has already posted!!! Share your item before our Zoom class on Wednesday.
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Rabindranath Tagore aside from being a great writer he was also a philosopher who helped reshape Bengali’s literature and music as well as participated in the Indian Nationalist Movement which can help us understand the kind of person he was. By being involved in such an important movement to India, we can see how passionate he was towards their culture as well as trying to avoid any outside government from getting involved in how India’s government will rule.
Rabindranath Tagore was an influential Bengali poet who helped introduce Indian culture to the west. He rejected formal schooling and founded an ashram where he blended the best of Indian and western traditions. Most of his later work were about the “humble lives and their small miseries” of villagers who lived near in Gangas River which were adapted by filmmaker, Satyajit Ray. His works consisted portrayals of common people’s lives and social issues.
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, and short story writer. He was known for his poems in the west. He introduced Bengali literature to the Indian culture to the west. He had early success as a writer in native Bengal and for his translations he started being known rapidly in the West for his poems. The poems of Rabindranath Tagore is “Manasi”, “Sonar Tari”, “Gitanjali” and many more poems written by Rabindranath Tagore.
Rabindranath Tagore is the textbook definition of a creative genius. Not only did he write his works such as poems, songs and plays, he also performed his own plays and even did art that has been in exhibits around the world. It’s also not just one or two works in a genre, it’s hundreds of them, even as much as 2200 songs. He even translated his original work which was in Bengali into English. Great works often times needs to be read between the lines in order to fully understand the text, but this is especially true for Tagore since he is a creative genius.
Tagore had a unique and characteristic individuality and creativity that was expressed in his writings. He had “insights and intuitions,” that were not expressed through conventional vernacular at that time, but Tagore was able to express his thoughts and ideas through creative originality that all can be seen in his work.
Rabindranath Tagore was a poet and great writer who was born in the 19th century in India. Tagore was born into a great family and he became fluent in Bengali and English. Tagore wrote most of his writings in Bengali and he would later translate them into English.Not only was he a writer and poet though he also contributed to plays and essays but he was a musician, painter and performer. His contributions have had a huge effect on the world today. Tagore was the first Asian to win a Noble Prize in 1913 for his poetry, specifically for his work in “Gitanjali”.
Aside from being a great writer and a very good poet he was also a social worker. He wrote many pieces of literature that focused mainly upon the socio-political problems. He was a humanist who valued the intellectual capacity of human beings and their lifestyles so he wrote for it.