LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 8 August 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Images in Tagore’s Gitanjali

T. Latha, M.A. M.Phil., SLET., Ph.D. Scholar

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a significant contributor to Indian Literature in English. He exposed himself responsibly to the twin Worlds of the English Romantic poets and Indian devotional poetry. His work Gitanjali won for him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The songs in Gitanjali are the poet’s meditations on God, Man and Nature. In order to express his ideas effectively, Tagore uses images in his works. Images in Tagore’s Gitanjali

Images are not a mere ornament. Images are essential to the meanings of a work of art. An image ‘is a picture made out of words’ and that ‘a poem may itself be an image composed from a multiplicity of images’ (C. Day Lewis, The Poetic Images, pp. 17-18).

Tagore’s Gitanjali is endowed with richness of diction and imagery. And it is highly expressive and original. The common objects of nature like flowers, rivers, clouds, the sky, the stars, the boatmen, the beggars, travelers on the road, and shepherds find place in his works.

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T. Latha, M.A., M.Phil.
Formerly Employed as Assistant Professor in English
Sri Sarada College For Women
Tirunelveli 627011
Tamilnadu
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