Gitanjali Author:Rabindranath Tagore In this 'Song offering', 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 mystical dep... more »th in these poems.
Included in this edition is W.B. Yeats' Introduction to Tagore's English translation of the work.« less