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Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. He now began to write for pleasure even if those early poetic compositions were of no great poetic value to him later on. But he found that did not happen. As a result Rabindranath began to interrogate himself, does one write poetry to explain something? Is it not something felt in the heart that is given expression in the utterance of a poem?

He concluded that a poem was a mirror image of something that was taking place within. In he began composing the Manasi group of poems and himself translated one of them into English. At the time there was a surge of Hindu revivalism in public life. Rabindranath himself was initially touched by the revivalism but turned away from it in distaste.

He and the leading Bengali writer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee engaged in a heated exchange on the subject of religion. Rabindranath wrote some biting satires against religious fanaticism and was not at the time in a happy frame of mind. He wrote. I hate all the demands of good manners. Oh for a healthy, strong, unfettered barbarity!

The letters he wrote stand out most prominently among the creations from that period, as do his short stories. The letters were published in in Bengali as Chhinnapatra Fragments. They are full of vivid details of everyday village life and of his encounters with stark nature. Born into aristocracy himself he was shaken by this revelation. He became restless to do something about it.

He wrote, I began to feel ashamed of spending my days simply as a landlord, concerned only with my own profit and loss. So I began to think about what could be done. I did not think helping from outside would help. I began to try and open their minds towards selfreliance. His drama Achalayatan The Immovable addressed the obduracy of Hindu orthodoxy, while his novels Gharey Baire Home and the World , and Gora attacked the corrupting Hindu influence on swadeshi politics.

In he himself joined the Swadeshi Movement but withdrew from it when it broke out into sectarian riots among Hindus and Muslims. An achievement certainly, but does it deserve to be admired? This found expression in several of his poems during to One such central poem was Jiban-debata God of life. He came to realize that the divine was to be found in humanity just as humanity was forever in search of the divine.

He explained his concept of Jiban-debata when he wrote, [It is]…the idea of the humanity of our God, or the divinity of Man the Eternal…. But when his sister in law and companion Kadambari Devi died he was utterly distraught. At the time he was writing a prose-drama called Nalini which was going to be acted by the Jorasanko family when she committed suicide.

Yet, he also experienced some flashes of joy in the midst of this unbearable grief. A realisation that life was not a stable permanent fixture helped to lighten his mind. He wrote, With the loosening allure of the world, the beauty of nature took on a deeper meaning. The poems are so full of innocent delight that nobody would imagine how anxious and grief stricken he must have been at the time.

There was more sorrow to come with the deaths of his father in , and of his youngest son Samindranath who died of cholera in when the boy was only eleven. Coming from an inner surrender, after much personal pain, the language of these poems became simple and direct. The family music teacher, Vishnu Chakraborty, taught youngsters the common Bengali folk songs.

He has described how he loved them. The modern custom is first to practice scales — sa-re-gama, etc. But the wise supervisor who was then in charge of our studies understood that boyhood has its own childish needs. Besides this the rhythm of this folk music defied all accompaniment by tabla. It danced itself into our very pulses. The harmonium, that bane of Indian music, was then not in vogue.

I practiced my songs with my tambura resting on my shoulder and did not subject myself to the slavery of the keyboard. Jyotidada played the piano while composing tunes in various new styles, keeping his younger brother by his side as he did so. Rabindranath was given the task to match the tunes by setting words to them, right there!

Biography of rabindranath tagore pdf merge

At the end of the day a mat and a pillow would be spread on the terrace for Bouthakrun and Jyotidada to come and sit. Jyotidada would draw the bow across his violin and Rabindranath would sing. The one thing from his legacy that has enjoyed the most popularity in Bengal are his songs. His songs are known also across India and abroad. He himself wrote that his songs would outlive him longest.

It was a liberating force to him. In his conversation with Einstein he said, There is in human affairs an element of elasticity — some freedom within a small range, which is for the expression of our personality. It is like the musical system in India, which is not so rigidly fixed as in western music. These were baul, kirtan, Shyamasangit, kheyal, thumri, dhrupad.

He was drawn to Carnatic music and also music from the other regions of India. He used the classical ragas freely but he did also accept some conventions. He loved some Western music to which he was exposed in his early years in England, and used them in his melodies. The best explanation of what he was intending is there in his autobiographical notes on his musical drama Valmiki Pratibha The Genius of Valmiki.

From this mixed cultivation of foreign and native melody was born Valmiki Pratibha The Genius of Valmiki. The tunes in this musical drama are mostly Indian, but they have been dragged out of their classic dignity; that which soared in the sky has been taught to run on the earth. Those who have seen and heard it performed will, I trust, bear witness that the harnessing of Indian melodic tunes in the service of the drama has proved neither demeaning nor futile.

This conjunction is the only special feature of Valmiki Pratibha. The pleasing task of loosening the chains on melodic forms and making them adaptable to a variety of treatment completely engrossed me. Several of the songs of Valmiki Pratibha were set to tunes originally severely classical in mode; some of the tunes were composed by my brother Jyotirindra; a few were adapted from European sources.

The telena style of Indian modes specially lends to dramatic purposes, and has been frequently utilized in this work. Two English tunes served form the drinking songs of the robber band, and an Irish melody for the lament of the woodnymphs. Valmiki Pratibha is not a composition which will bear being read. Its significance is lost if it not sung and acted.

It is not what Europeans call an opera, but a small drama set to music. That is to say, it is not primarily a musical composition. Very few of the songs are important or attractive in themselves; they serve merely as the musical text of the play. After my return one more such gathering in our house at which music, recitations were accompanied with light refreshments.

After my return one more such gathering was held, which happened to 23 be the last of its kind. It was for this that Valmiki Pratibha was composed. His deepening experience in relating to man and nature gave him his two most persistent drives in life: to bring joy and creativity and alternative values for a sustainable future to urban education, and to bring scientific education and self-reliance to the rural people.

It was in Santiniketan in rural southern Bengal that he first began to integrate those strands. In Maharshi Debendranath bought some land from his friend the Sinhas of Raipur and built a garden house on it in In he established a Trust Deed for Santiniketan which provided for a hall of prayer, an annual village fair and a school. This was the school Rabindranath founded in His Santiniketan school was to be a dynamic experiment to build up a living connection between city and village.

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