LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:11 November 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Rabindranath Tagore: A Quest for Beauty

Dr. Neeru Bala, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

If it could be said that literature has reached its excellence in the creative hands of Rabindranath Tagore, then it would not be wrong to say that he was the one writer who first gained a place for modern India, on the world literary scene. An ardent apostle of endless excellence, Tagore is very aware of emphasizing the inner potentialities of man, and the reaching beyond of consciousness through partnership with Beauty, which might direct one toward the thrilling avenues of creative appreciation. Throughout his life, Tagore had worshipped the ideal of beauty and perceived it in his heart as a devoted disciple. Tagore does not adore external beauty as most poets do; and he envisages only the emotional beauty which he has personified in his writings as the ideal human characteristic. That is why this crucial element of all of Tagore’s writing (after a deep analytical study) makes a reader firmly convinced of the deep spiritual impulse that inspired Tagore in the writing of his songs, which enhances his sense of beauty.

Introduction

To bathe in the beauty of creation is to be blessed with the blessings of the All Beautiful. Rabindranath Tagore, an incomparable worshipper of beauty throughout his life, sought beauty not extrinsically but intrinsically, introspectively and the sense of beauty appears in his creations as a living, dynamic force. As the fountain of beauty springs from the heart, his quest for beauty is primarily in the heart’s core. He looks at the reasons for the blossoming force of beauty within as quite inexplicable. However, Tagore presents an explanation in his own inimitable fashion about the inner urge for beauty that is involved in the history of human creative process.

Tagore’s Quest to Unfold Beauty

Like any faithful creative artist of beauty, Tagore believes in unfolding the inherent mystery of beauty. He believes in the truth of Bacon’s statement that the best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Therefore, the quest becomes a haunting one, a thrilling and unending voyage toward the sea of beauty. The quest for the beauty of death in creative force appears in a new pattern of poetic consciousness. In fact, in the preface to this book of poems, the poet plunges into self- revelation in a very eloquent mode: “Looking within my heart, an idea awoke within me that everything good and evil of my every moment, my all experiences of joy and sorrow of day to day life are taking an endless image of creation ceaselessly. The real nature of that creativity is the eternal ups and downs of this expression and non-expression. Thinking over this it seemed to me, What, then, is the meaning of death? Somehow the reply was that life retains everything while death leads. I am dying at every moment and through this death I am marching ahead towards the avenue of life. It is as if the work of sowing is going on within me the past, present and future is being sewn.”

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Dr. Neeru Bala, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in English
S.D. Mahila Mahavidyalya
Hansi 125033
Haryana
India
Neeru_bhayana@rediffmail.com
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