英文诗歌赏析

1、.英文诗歌赏析安全B103班彭峥 201010044323 Anaiysis on the poem of-The most distant way in the worldPoet：TagoreThe most distant way in the worldis not the way from birth to the end.It is when I sit near youthat you dont understand I love you.The most distant way in the worldis not that youre not sure I love you.

2、It is when my love is bewildering the soulbut I cant speak it outThe most distant way in the worldis not that I cant say I love you.It is after looking into my heartI cant change my love.The most distant way in the worldis not that Im loving you.It is in our lovewe are keeping between the distance.T

3、he most distant way inthe worldis not the distance across us.It is when were breaking through the waywe deny the existance of love.So the most distant way in the worldis not in two distant trees.It is the same rooted branchescant enjoy the co-existance.So the most distant way in the worldis not in t

4、he being sepearated branches.It is in the blinking starsthey cant burn the light.So the most distant way in the worldis not the burning stars.It is after the lightthey cant be seen from afar.So the most distant way in the worldis not the light that is fading away.It is the coincidence of usis not su

5、pposed for the love.So the most distant way in the worldis the love between the fish and bird.One is flying at the sky,the other is looking upon into the sea.Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in n

6、ineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to h

7、is many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to t

8、ime he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a prot

9、est against British policies in India.Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the

10、 world he became the voice of Indias spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) The Ideal One, Sonar

11、Tari (1894) The Golden Boat, Gitanjali (1910) Song Offerings, Gitimalya (1914) Wreath of Songs, and Balaka (1916) The Flight of Cranes. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular

12、volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagores major plays are Raja (1910) The King of the Dark Chamber, Dakghar (1912) The Post Office, Achalayatan (1912) The Imm

13、ovable, Muktadhara (1922) The Waterfall, and Raktakaravi (1926) Red Oleanders. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) The Home and the World, and Yogayog (1929) Crosscurrents. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dan

14、ce dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself.From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Fr

15、enz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. Rabindranat

16、h Tagore died on August 7, 1941.Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, and an early advocate of Independence for India. Tagaore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Two years later he was awarded the knighthood, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protes

17、t against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators. Tagores influence over Gandhi and the founders of modern India was enormous, but his reputation in the West as a mystic has perhaps mislead his Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critic o

18、f colonialism. When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose touch of the one in the play of the many. (from Gitanjali) Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta into a wealthy and prominent family. His father was Maharishi Debendran

19、ath Tagore, a religious reformer and scholar. His mother, Sarada Devi, died when Tagore was very young - he realized that she will never come back was when her body was carried through a gate to a place where it was burned. Tagores grandfather had established a huge financial empire for himself. He

20、helped a number of public projects, such as Calcutta Medical College. The Tagores tried to combine traditional Indian culture with Western ideas; all the children contributed significantly to Bengali literature and culture. However, in My Reminiscences Tagore mentions that it was not until the age o

21、f ten when he started to use socks and shoes. And servants beat the children regularly. Tagore, the youngest, started to compose poems at the age of eight. Tagores first book, a collection of poems, appeared when he was 17; it was published by Tagores friend who wanted to surprise him. Tagore receiv

22、ed his early education first from tutors and then at a variety of schools. Among them were Bengal Academy where he studied history and culture. At University College, London, he studied law but left after a year - he did not like the weather. Once he gave a beggar a cold coin - it was more than the

23、beggar had expected and he returned it. In England Tagore started to compose the poem Bhagna Hridaj (a broken heart). In 1883 Tagore married Mrinalini Devi Raichaudhuri, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. In 1890 Tagore moved to East Bengal (now Bangladesh), where he collected local lege

24、nds and folklore. Between 1893 and 1900 he wrote seven volumes of poetry, including SONAR TARI (The Golden Boat), 1894 and KHANIKA, 1900. This was highly productive period in Tagores life, and earned him the rather misleading epitaph The Bengali Shelley. More important was that Tagore wrote in the c

25、ommon language of the people. This also was something that was hard to accept among his critics and scholars. Tagore was the first Indian to bring an element of psychological realism to his novels. Among his early major prose works are CHOCHER BALI (1903, Eyesore) and NASHTANIR (1901, The Broken Nes

26、t), published first serially. Between 1891 and 1895 he published forty-four short stories in Bengali periodical, most of them in the monthly journal Sadhana. Especially Tagores short stories influenced deeply Indian Literature. Punishment, a much anthologized work, was set in a rural village. It des

27、cribes the oppression of women through the tragedy of the low-caste Rui family. Chandara is a proud, beautiful woman, buxom, well-rounded, compact and sturdy, her husband, Chidam, is a farm-laborer, who works in the fields with his brother Dukhiram. One day when they return home after whole day of t

28、oil and humiliation, Dukhiram kills in anger his sloppy and slovenly wife because his food was not ready. To help his brother, Chidams tells to police that his wife struck her sister-in-law with the farm-knife. Chandara takes the blame on to herself. In her thoughts, Chandara was saying to her husba

29、nd, I shall give my youth to the gallows instead of you. My final ties in this life will be with them. Afterwards both Chidam and Dukhiram try to confess that they were quilty but Chandara is convicted. Just before the hanging, the doctor says that her husband wants to see her. To hell with him, say

30、s Chandara. In 1901 Tagore founded a school outside Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, which was dedicated to emerging Western and Indian philosophy and education. It become a university in 1921. He produced poems, novels, stories, a history of India, textbooks, and treatises on pedagogy. Tagores wife died in

31、 1902, next year one of his daughters died, and in 1907 Tagore lost his younger son. Tagores reputation as a writer was established in the United States and in England after the publication of GITANJALI: SONG OFFERINGS, about divine and human love. The poems were translated into English by the autho

32、r himself. In the introduction from 1912 William Butler Yates wrote: These lyrics - which are in the original, my Indians tell me, full of subtlety of rhythm, of untranslatable delicacies of colour, of metrical invention - display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long. Tagores poems were also praised by Ezra Pound, and drew the attention of the Nobel Prize committee. There is in him the stillness of nature. The poems do not seem to have be