6/17/2023 0 Comments When i am dead poem by tagoreHe lost his close friend and collaborator Kadambari, married to his brother Jyotindranath Tagore soon after he got married to Mrinalini. Kadambari committed suicide and it took Tagore a long time to move on after the shock of her death. Since Kadambari Devi’s death, between 19, Tagore had to face multiple deaths of his closest ones – Mrinalini Devi, daughter Renuka, father Debendranath Tagore, the youngest son, Samindranath, and then Bela or Madhurilata in 1918.Īfter Madhurilata passed away on 13th May, 1918, Tagore wrote another bunch of poems called Palataka (1918) which begins with his personal grief over losing his daughter and also a son Samindranath, to cholera and daughter Renuka who died after chronic ailments. Grief placed milestones in the journey of Tagore’s life. Madhurilata did not bear any children and Renuka was too small and ill to conceive apart from the fact that she hardly spent any time with her husband. Sanjukta Dasgupta, former Professor and former Head, Dept. of English and former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University is a poet, critic and translator,has lectured, taught and read her poems and short stories in India, Europe, USA and Australia. Her published books include Tagore: At Home in the World (coeditor, SAGE 2013), Radical Rabindranath: Nation, Family and Gender in Tagore’s Fiction and Films (co-author, Orient Blackswan, 2013), Swades Tagore’s Patriotic Songs (translation, Visva Bharati Publication Division, 2013), Towards Tagore A collection of Essays (Edited with introduction - Visva Bharati Publications, 2014), and many others. She points out that Tagore’s philosophical perspective on Death is not riddled with any confusion about the ‘transference’ of “texts from one culture to another” because Death is universal.ĭasgupta's translation of the lyrics included in the Swadesh category of the Geetbitan had already established her fondness for Tagore.ĭasgupta is lucid in translating even the innermost feelings of grief, emptiness and emotional inner pain felt by Tagore.
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