Spiritual Evolution of Tagore's Poetry

Abstract

This paper primarily analyses the development of intellectual and spiritual content in select poems of Rabindranath Tagore, including Gitanjali, in a chronological manner. The paper intends to contribute some valuable insights into the origin and development of spiritual and intellectual content in Tagore's poetry, through textual analysis of selected poems and a comprehensive biographical research on the poet employing the model of ‘Narrative Flow' as proposed by Vilma Hänninen (1996). Through it is beyond the scope of the paper to analyse the entire poetry by Tagore, the paper, however attempts analyse few select poems by the poet seer and present an evolution of spiritual content observed in Tagore's poetry beginning at Nirjharer Swapnabhanga, through Gitanjali, and ending with Sesher Kobita.