Paper Boat
~ Rabindranath Tagore
•The poem paper boat is A free verse poem.
•Features of the poem
1. Assonance
2. Alliteration
3.Consonance
4.Enjambmemt
5.imagery
6.Metaphor
7.symbolism
•Background of the author
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Kolkata, India. He attended University College, at London for one year before being called back to India by his father in 1880.
During the first 51 years of his life, he achieved some success in the Kolkata area of India with his many stories, songs, and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. While returning to England in 1912, he began translating his latest selections of poems. In 1913, he received the Nobel Prize for literature.
He was the first non-westerner to receive the honor. In 1915, he was knighted by King George V. He wrote over one thousand poems; eight volumes of short stories; almost two dozen plays and play-lets; eight novels; and many books and essays on philosophy, religion, education and social topicss, both the music and lyrics. Two of them became the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
• Summary of the poem
She hopes that someone in some strange land will find them and know who she is. Sometimes she also loads the boats with Shiuli flowers form their garden. The Shiuli flowers always bloom in the early morning when the sun is rising. She hopes that these blooms will be carried safely, down the stream, to some land in the night. As she launches her paper boats she looks up at the sky and Sees little clouds floating in the sky. The clouds appear to her like the white sails of a boat, bulging in the wind.
She wonders who might be her friend in the sky, who sends the clouds floating through the sky, to race with her boats. The girl imagines that the clouds floating in the sky and her boats floating in the stream are running a race. Every night the little girl sleeps and buries her face in her arms and dreams that her paper boats are floating along the stream, under the midnight stars. She dreams that the fairies of sleep are sailing in her paper boat, after loading them with baskets full of dreams.
• Reflection of the poem
The child has always a deep sense of love. He wishes to present the unknown friend with valuable gifts. So he loads his boats with flowers from his garden. He hopes that the boats will carry the flowers safely to the distant land in the night.
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