A Book of Memory by Sudhir Kakar

Author:Sudhir Kakar
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789351188858
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

The unity theme, with its two basic moods of melancholy, that is, death before consummation and rapture when the Oneness is consummated, is pervasive in Tagore and can be traced back to the ‘geography’ of his childhood. Here, ‘imprisoned on the fringe of the big house, the fringe where “the people”—the servants, the sister-in-law Kadambri, the teachers—dwell, the child longs for the mysterious inner sanctum (his mother’s quarters, her “scent”, an immersion in the maternal) as also for the great outer world—of the returning father, the inspiration of nature, the merger with the Great Spirit.’ At least some of Tagore’s genius—not all—can be understood as the playing out of a vital childhood theme in complex and mature ways in his poems and plays.

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