Patriotic Poems of Rabindranath Tagore: Awakening the Soul to Restore India’s Lost Glory

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Rajveer Singh, Prof. (Dr.) Kum Kum Ray Assoc. ,Prof. (Dr.) Nita (Dave) Jain

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Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet and patriot who believed in the peaceful coexistence of human beings, races, cultures and countries. His idea of nationalism was based on assimilation rather than discrimination. He propagated the idea of social harmony among human beings and decried wars fought by nations for selfish, material gains. He was against any kind of bloodshed and firmly believed in the Indian thought of universal humanism; the same is reflected in his poems, and he now occupies a high place among the Indian poets. The present research paper explores Tagore’s poems that express these feelings of national consciousness. In these, he tries to awaken the soul of Indians and reanimate the lost glory of the past. The interpretations of these poems reflect patriotism without any sense of alienation or hate towards anyone. Tagore desired to awaken the Indian society and encourage them to walk alongside the rest of the world on the path to progress and freedom. His goal was to achieve real freedom, i.e. freedom of the soul, through enlightenment, contrary to the contemporary conflicts between nations that result in discrimination and the warmongering idea of nationalism.

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