Critical appreciation of "Light, oh Where is the Light" by Rabindranath Tagore | Gitanjali | -- englit.in
Q: Critically examine Rabindranath Tagore’s divinest poem ‘Light, oh Where is the Light’. Rabindranath Tagore's one of the divinest poems 'Light, Oh Where is the Light’ (1913). The poem was translated into English from Tagore's well known bengali collection "Gitanjali (1913)" or "Song Offerings", the poem appears as verse 27. Tagore won the Nobel prize for this collection, and he was the first Nobel prize winner in Bengali Literature in 1913. In the course of the poem, The light signifies as "A spiritual awakening desired by the poet after walking in the path of darkness for long." The poem begins with a rhetorical question. “Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!” Then the poet says that the light can be enlighten by the desire which is intense like burning fire. Tagore's poem 'Light, oh Where is the Light ' contains six prosaic lines. Tagore does not separate the ideas, adhering to the conve