![]() ![]() His manuscripts' scribbles, cross-outs, and word arrangements displayed his creative handwriting through straightforward visual leitmotifs. Red and green were probably the only colors he couldn't see, so his artwork often had odd color combinations and unconventional aesthetics. His numerous pieces were successfully shown all around Europe after their opening in Paris. Tagore began painting and drawing when he was sixty. When the Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in 1919, Tagore renounced the knighthood he received in 1915 from the British Crown. Tagore also wrote and tuned the National Anthem of Sri Lanka's original song. His songs were chosen as the national anthems of two countries: Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla and India's Jana Gana Mana. He is well regarded for his poetic works, realism, and unnatural reflection in his writings. His most well-known compositions are Ghare-Baire (meaning "The Home and the World"), Gitanjali (meaning "Song Offerings"), and Gora (meaning "Fair-Faced"). His books, short tales, songs, dance plays, and other works address political and personal problems. Visva-Bharati University, which he created, is another institution that carries on his legacy. He created significant work representing the Bengal Renaissance, including paintings, drawings, sketches, hundreds of writings, and almost 2,000 songs. He criticized the Raj and pushed for independence from Britain as a passionate patriot and humanist. By 1877, he had begun to write his first short stories and plays under his name. ![]() At age 16, he published his first lengthy poems under the alias Bh?nusi?ha (which means "SwerewereLion"), which literary experts believed to be forgotten classics. At the age of 8, Tagore began penning poems. He was a Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, and his family had moved here from Jessore, where they had ancestors who were members of the aristocracy. The greatest of Indian culture was also brought to the West largely by Tagore, who is also often recognized as the most remarkable modern artist on the Indian subcontinent. Bengali literature was liberated from traditional patterns based on classical Sanskrit. Tagore popularized the use of informal language in Bengali literature and developed new poetic forms. His collection of rhymes and songs, Gitanjali or The Song Offerings, earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, making him the first non-European to do so. ![]() Next → ← prev Where the Mind Is Without Fear: Summary & Analysis About the Poetĭuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Rabindranath Tagore influenced Bengali music and Indian art. ![]()
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