Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath. Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in a wealthy Brahmin family in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta .

He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian who won the first Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913; awarded knighthood by the British King George V; established Viswabharati University; two songs from his Rabindrasangit canon are now the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.

Rabindranath Tagore was an icon of Indian culture. He was a poet, philosopher, musician, writer, and educationist. when he won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913, he was popularly called as Gurudev and his songs were popularly known as Rabindrasangeet. Two songs from his Rabindrasangit canon are now the national anthems : the Jana Gana Mana and the Amar Shonar Bangla.

JANA GANA MANA…AMAR SHONAR BANGLA…

Rabindranath Tagore became the editor of the magazine Bangadarshan. He Established Bolpur Bramhacharyaashram at Shantiniketan, a school based on the pattern of old Indian Ashrama. In 1905, Lord Curzon decided to divide Bengal into two parts. Rabindranath Tagore strongly protested against this decision.

He introduced the Rakhibandhan ceremony , symbolizing the underlying unity of undivided Bengal.

Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. . He was a supporter of Gandhiji but he stayed out of politics. He was opposed to nationalism and militarism as a matter of principle, and instead promoted spiritual values and the creation of a new world culture founded in multi-culturalism, diversity and tolerance. Unable to gain ideological support to his. He was a supporter of Gandhiji but he stayed out of politics.

He wrote a number of books ,25000

songs, 3000poems, short stories

apart from the different novels ,

essay etc. He also known as Vishwa

Kavi .

In 1902, his wife Mrinalini died.Same year Tagore composed Smaran ( In Memoriam ), a collection of poems, dedicated to his wife.

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore passed away on August 7, 1941 in his ancestral home in Calcutta, that time his age was 80 years old.

Children learn to play by birth. It is a universal activity, although it takesmany forms. Indeed, children of every culture engage in

play. It is true that free play that is the most

influential in learning and development.Here poet finds that he is busy in the work.He smiles when he learns that a child s

plying with a broken twig band he is busy in making accounts and worldly maters. He is busy sine few hoursin adding figures

in accounts. This makes him sad that child is enjoyingthe life fully and in the hustle and bustle of

life he forgot how to enjoy life.

Our mind and body become a slave to the unending desire. In the cycle of desiring and fulfilling the human being forget that , this world is just a play ground and which human being are players.The life is a game which is controlled by the referey of god .Here game is compar with life it is metaphore.The diction of the poem is lucid and the poet also uses the commercial diction like gold , silver, account and so on . The words which are use is very common and the poem is visual imagery kinesthetic.

Swami Vivekananda is generally known as a saint, a patriot, and a lover of humanity. Very few outside the circle of his devotees and admirers know him as a poet a saint is sometimes an artist .

Swami Vivekananda wrote 33 poems including two translations, eight in Bengali, and four in Sanskrit and one in Hindi. From among these poems- only three- To the Awakened India,To the Fourth � �of July and Kali the Mother will be the � � �concern of this paper. These poems form a group by themselves as they were all written in Kashmir during his visit in the year 1898.

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This poem is a representative poem of Swami Vivekanda , is written or forced itself into writing, when, during the days of pilgrimage to Kshir Bhawani (Kashmir) in 1898; Swami was in such a high spiritual state that it seemed indeed as if his physical frame could not bear it for long.

Sister Nivedita who accompanied the Swami on that pilgrimage says: His brain �was teeming with thoughts, he said one day, and his fingers would not rest till

they were written down. It was that same evening that he came back to our house- boat from some expedition, and found waiting for us, where he had called and

left them, his manuscript lines on Kali the Mother.

In this poem mother worshiping – means upliftment of India means, Swami vivekanda was the ordent flower of kali Maa, and swami is personified here with flower means, swami ji is compared with flower which is here a visual imagery. But the worshiping of mother is just not physical , it goes description in to the spiritual sense .

He firmly believed that Kali Maa, “The shakti” is the menifestation of three hundred million Indians. But she is a rampage of darkness and destruction as Indian were still shocked in the chaining of ignorance and illetracy . The darkness is the symbol of the self imposed chain of slavery of the Indian people not only of the English but also the resistance of accepting new. Here darkness also visual imagery.

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