Theme Of Death Tagore Poetry

Tagore’s death poetry is a beautiful flower in the vast ocean of his poetic works. It blooms in the poet’s world with its rich imagery and profound implications. Based on Tagore’s death poetry, this thesis analyses the factors that affect the formation of his view of death and its specific content. At the same time, the thesis further explains the aesthetic value of Tagore’s death poetry and the manifestations of his aesthetic thoughts in death poetry. The thesis can be divided into three parts.The first part makes a specific analysis on the production, the main themes and the ideological contents of Tagore’s death poetry, classifies and summarizes the death imagery in his death poetry, and makes detailed interpretations on his death imagery. Throughout his whole life, Tagore continued death poetry production. From his collection of poems firm and soft, which was written in his youth, the poet began to fall into the net of "death" and meditate on life through the eyes of death. It can be said that death is the most important theme in Tagore’s poetry. Death can be seen in almost all of his poetry collections. And exactly, it is the death that made his poetry a mysterious and sacred beauty. The ideological content of his death poetry mainly includes three parts, the deep meditation and liberal feelings on death, a gift for God, and the thought that death makes life complete. The death imagery is unique in Tagore’s poetry. In Tagore’s poetic world, whether it is journey, the celestial dog, mother or wedding, they can all wear the coat of death and fly with the wings of the poet’s philosophical thoughts. The death imagery can mainly be divided into direct narrative imagery and indirect descriptive imagery.The second part penetrates into the formation of his view of death, the various factors that affect his poetic production and the specific content of his view of death. First is the influence of Indian traditional culture. Hinduism is the most important component in Tagore’s religious philosophy; in addition, Buddhism, Christianity, and western modernism also have certain influence on him. While absorbing their essence, the poet discarded the negative parts and finally formed his own religious philosophy. From the point of literature, Sanskrit classical literature, medieval Vishnu religious poetry and western literature largely affected his literary creation. It can be said that Indian traditional culture, whether it is religious philosophy or literature, affected him deeply. Reflected in his poetry, it’s mainly the embodiment of "reincarnation karma" and "integration of Brahma and individual". Second is the influence of his personal experience of death in Brahmin family on the formation of his view of death and the production of his death poetry. The loss of his dearest relatives not only made him suffered a lot but also made him meditate deeply on life and death. Third is the influence of western culture on his view of death and production of death poetry.Tagore’s view of death experienced three stages of development, which are affirming death stage, negating death stage and transcending death stage. The poet discarded the negative influence of Indian traditional culture, overcame the pain of experiencing death in real life, absorbed the positive factors of western culture, and finally formed his unique view of death, that is,"cherish death, and cherish life".The third part explains that the core of Tagore’s aesthetic ideology is "harmony is beauty". He thought that one should overcome one’s finiteness and pursue infinity, and finally achieve the goal of "integration of Brahma and individual" in the course of pursuit of truth. Death is a way of reaching this stage. Mysterious or splendid or calm descriptions of death imagery in his poems reflect the poet’s poetic philosophy of death, present kind of metaphysical implications, and make his death poetry full of aesthetic significance and value at the same time.