Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore received the Noble Prize for Literature, largely for the English translation, Song Offerings. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is ‘I am here to sing thee songs’

Author : Rabindranath Tagore

Original title:গীতাঞ্জলি

Country:India

Language:Bengali

Subject:Devotion to God

Genre:Poem

Publication date:1910

Published in English:1912

Pages:104

Major theme of Gitanjali

The major theme in Gitanjali is devotion to God. This paper focuses on the Indian philosophical aspects and the theme of devotion in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. Gitanjali focuses on the all-pervading presence of God everywhere. Gitanjali brings its readers into direct contact with the Infinite.

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The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English prose poems, which are Tagore’s own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society, in London.

Message of Tagore in Gitanjali to the world

The major theme in Gitanjali is devotion to God. This paper focuses on the Indian philosophical aspects and the theme of devotion in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. Gitanjali focuses on the all-pervading presence of God everywhere. Gitanjali brings its readers into direct contact with the Infinite.

The word gitanjali is composed from “geet”, song, and “anjali”, offering, and thus means – “An offering of songs”; but the word for offering, anjali, has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as “prayer offering of song”

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