Who is the poet of this dog?
A sweet poem for dog lovers takes the spotlight in this week’s Featured Poem from Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Hailed as ‘The Bard of Bengal’, Rabindranath Tagore is celebrated as a Renaissance man who reshaped the literature and music of his native land.
In which language Tagore wrote this dog?
Rabindranath Tagore’s “This Dog” is a poem originally written in Bengali and trans-created by Kumud Biswas. It is the 14th poem in Tagore’s collection Arogya (1940).
What was Rabindranath Tagore popularly known as?
Gurudev
Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate 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.
Who is the natural poet of India?
There are not many in India who have written poetry in English. Among them, Sarojini Naidu stands first. Her poems are praised not only in India, but all over the world. Though she has written poems on religion, country, women’s freedom, etc., her poems on nature occupy the first place in her poetry.
Why is the poem called The Poison Tree?
The title of this poem announces its central metaphor. The poem is called “A Poison Tree,” and at the end a “foe” lies “outstretched beneath a tree” (16) after eating the (possibly poisoned) apple that grows on it. The poison tree can be seen as a metaphor for what happens when you stay angry for too long a time.
Did Rabindranath drink alcohol?
Did Rabindranath Tagore drink alcohol? Yes, other than indulging in some Bengali and western delicacies for lunch and dinner, Rabindranath Tagore had a penchant for Sanatogen. Sanatogen, popularly known as Horlicks, is a milk concentration that he drank almost everyday without fail.
Who is the famous English poet in India?
Sarojini Naidu was known as “the Nightingale of India.” Nissim Ezekiel: Nissim Ezekiel is one of the India’s most famous English poets. His poems integrate the complexities and anxieties of urban life and depict ordinary human situations and relationships.
Who was the first Indian poet to write a ghazal?
Indian musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Begum Akhtar popularized the ghazal in the English-speaking world during the 1960s. However, it was the poet Agha Shahid Ali who introduced it, in its classical form, to Americans. Ali compared each ghazal couplet to “a stone from a necklace,” which should continue to “shine in that vivid isolation.”
Who are the four major poets of Chhayavaadi school?
Varma is considered to be one of the four major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of the Hindi literature, others being Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’, Jaishankar Prasad and Sumitranandan Pant. She drew a number of illustrations for her poetic works like Yama.
What did Eknath say about the dog and God?
Eknath’s radical form of religious egalitarianism led him not only to argue that low-caste persons are eligible for God’s grace but also to go so far as to claim in one of his compositions that “the dog and God are identical.”
What kind of poetry does Arun Kolatkar write?
Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar [1932-2004] was an Indian poet who wrote in both Marathi and English. He was winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 1977 with his first book of poetry in English. Kolatkar was one of the post-independence bilingual poets who combined their mother tongues with international styles to create new poetic traditions.