LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:3 March 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Mystic Vision and Cosmopolitan Outlook in Gitanjali

Dr. S. Chelliah


Abstract

This article is an attempt to understand the universally acknowledged versatile genius of Rabindranath Tagore and his writings which got permeated with a rich fund of creative imagination by rendering his vision and experience freely and spontaneously into his transcreations. It throws light on his mystic vision and cosmopolitan outlook by stating that Tagore is a poet of humanity par excellence. Tagore is a harmoniser trying to build a durable bridge of understanding between man and nature, man and God.

Keywords: Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, mystic vision, cosmopolitan

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Universally acknowledged as a man of versatile genius and achievements, Rabindranath Tagore may be regarded as the first Indian poet cum writer who gained for modern India a permanent place on the world literary map. No doubt, he was a poet par excellence who mainly wrote in English and translated his own creations into English. It is generally held that almost all his English renderings called transcreations and all his writings – plays, short stories, novels, essays, etc., are out and permeated with a rich fund of creative imagination. His extensive travels, his understanding of different principles and philosophical notions of people far and wide and his varied experiences of life and culture enriched the world in general and the literary world in particular with the rich reservoir of knowledge and wealth of wisdom.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A. Ph.D.
Professor, Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages &
School of Indian Languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai - 625 021
Tamilnadu
India
aschelliah@yahoo.com
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