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Volume : I, Issue : VIII, September - 2011 Tagore's The Suicide of a Star: A craving of Lover Himanshu A. Srivastava Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : India is celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Tagore. In 1913 an unknown Indian poet who had published a slim
volume of a hundred and three poems entitled Gitanjali, created sensation and was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer with a many sided genius. He comes from which is reputed for its high
culture in arts, music and philosophy. His literary output is so extraordinary that the phrase “myriad minded” which
Matthew Arnold has used for Shakespeare can appropriately be used for him too. He has written about 300 volumespoems,
plays, short-stories, novels, critical essays, poetic translations and discourses etc on religion, history, culture,
and philosophy. Love to Tagore is not an emotional nonsense. To him it is an irresistible spiritual urge. To him, love
is a varied idea, its facets are many. Tagore was never successful in his love affairs. His need for a feminine touch
in his daily life as well as his deeper artistic need to be inspired by a woman remained with him, to be filled, from
time to time by various women of the family. His love poems presents the sad side of love-affairs. His poetry is full
of the “unfinished business” of grieving. He often evokes the image of a woman who has gone away, leaving him with
the pain of an incomplete communication, of things left unsaid. In “Suicide of a Star” through the symbol of a star,
he depicts the suicide attempt of his sister-in-law Kadambari with whom he was in love. He presents the world's
indifference to her in the poem. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Himanshu A. Srivastava, (2011). Tagore's The Suicide of a Star: A craving of Lover. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. VIII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/477.pdf References : - Rabindranath Tagore I Won't Let You Go: Selected Poems, Translated by Ketaki Kushari Dyson. UBS Publishers' Distributors Ltd., New Delhi.
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