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je ontohin praan. Bojre tomar baje bashi. She ki shohoj gaan. Shei shurete jagbo ami. Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde. Chittobinar taare. Shopto-Shindhu dosh digonto. Nachao je jhonkare! Life. I shall not ever easily forget, My heart shall fill up with life, Even in death, lies hidden. That endless life. In the lightning and thunder, your flute plays,
(Poem 28, Song Offering) The word gitanjali is composed from "geet", song, and "anjali", offering, and thus means – "An offering of songs"; but the word for offering, anjali, has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as "prayer offering of song".
[1] [2] His Brajabuli lyrics about the love for Radha Krishna is considered to his best of works. [3] Other poets emulated his writing, and the language became established in the 16th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among the medieval Bengali poets who wrote in Brajabuli are Narottama Dasa , Balarama Das, Jnanadas, and Gobindadas Kabiraj .
Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian and the only Indian to receive this honour.
These lyrics, which were earlier brought out in several issues of Bharati magazine, were first anthologized in 1884. Later, Tagore described composing these songs in his reminiscences Jiban Smriti . Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first substantial poems titled Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali in Brajabuli under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha at age ...
Vaishnava padavali left a lasting mark on Bengali literature. Among others, Rabindranath Tagore was deeply impressed by the works of Govindadas, and wrote many Vaishnava and Baul pieces. His opera Bhanusingher Padavali was composed in the Brajabuli language and included the song Sundari Radhe Awe Bani written by Govindadas .
The poem "Abani Bari Acho" is a monsoon night's verse, where the poet assumes the role of Abani . However, while penning this verse, Shakti recounted that when the poet gazed upon the Meghdoot garland and a bottle of mahua in an abandoned house, he felt as though innumerable cows had traversed by.
Bhaba Pagla's songs are referred to by his devotees as spiritual songs for self-realization (sadhana sangit). The themes and the styles covered by his songs are numerous, drawing from various popular and religious repertoires of his time. His lyrics are profound and metaphorical, [5] but also witty and humorous.