Gitanjali Tagore Analysis

As in Gitanjali Tagore has shown his concern to describe the importance of the ecological substance similarly many eco-critics encourages to the humans to realise their connection to Mother Earth and advised them to maintain their interaction with her. In fact Tagore was the great devotee of nature, he considered the nature as his mother, and he urges that humans should create the holy bond to the Earth he says that God cannot be found through prayer in closed space. He says God is Omnipresent, Omniscient, and Omnipotent. He urges that God is not in the temple “he is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the path maker is breaking stones. He is not in the temple with you but he is with them in sun and in shower, and his …show more content…
Tagore keen observation of nature is highly commendable. He watches Nature closely and propagates learning through observation. He observes that: “Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, Heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth. The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light. Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion. Mirth spreads from leaf to leaf, my darling, and …show more content…
Nature in his hands illustrates the human and the abstract, the temporal and the universal, and reigns supreme in his poetry. We believe that full justice to Tagore as a poet of Nature is yet to be done. We also believe that scholars and researchers have been put on a false track because of his greatness as a mystic and as a philosopher, because of his spiritualism and Indianness, his philanthropist and altruism. There is hardly any thought, or feeling, or concept, emotion that does not come to life with vivid, suggestive and telling images drawn from Nature.
In the companionship with nature that Tagore tries to seek in all his works again and again, the Romantic poets of England influenced him very much. He agrees with Wordsworth and, therefore, he advises us not be too much with the world. He writes about the Religion of a Poet: "I remember, when I was a child, that a row of coconut trees by our garden wall, with their branches beckoning the rising sun on the horizon, gave me a companion as living as I was myself" At the moment when the poet feels the bliss divine, he starts comparing himself with the various objects of nature or at times he merges with