Gitanjali Author:Rabindranath Tagore In this "Song of offerings", Tagore uses modernized images from classical Indian love poetry to symbolize his yearning to merge with the Supreme, So the mud-stained traveller (sic), the parched summer earth, the bride awaiting the return of her lord, the first monsoon shower, the flowers, the rivers and the conch are images which gain a mystica... more »l depth in these poems. Included in this edition is W.B. Yeats' Introduction to Tagore's English tanslation of the work.« less