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All that is harsh and dissonant in my life
Melts into one sweet harmony
And my adoration spreads wings like a
On its flight across the sea.
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Answer:
When thou commandest me to sing
it seems that my heart would break with pride;
and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes.
Through this stanza, Tagore expresses his gratitude and surrenders himself to Godliness, which is his inner self. He realises that his life’s work and meaning is through his songs. But at the same time, he cannot write as and when he wants. He can only write when there is a calling from within. Only through that calling he can write. And every time he gets his command from his inner self, he is overwhelmed in joy.
All that is harsh and dissonant in my life
melts into one sweet harmony –
and my adoration spreads wings
like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.
In this stanza, he reveals that he is pained, lost and unhappy when he is not creating songs. But all his anguish and dissonance turns into beautiful work. He is not saying his bitter experience has disappeared rather it turned into beautiful experience. This realization of sadness and happiness are uniting forces of inner self makes him speechless. He realizes that his true self is as big as ocean and he simply adorns it.
I know thou takest pleasure in my singing.
I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence.
I touch by the edge of the far spreading wing of my song
thy feet which I could never aspire to reach.
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself
and call thee friend who art my lord.
In this stanza Tagore says
His soul rejoices in ecstasy through his songs
He can unite with his soul only through his songs
Without songs, he is nowhere close to himself.
When he sings, he is in total bliss. There is no ego, no arrogance.
He forgets himself while singing.
In that blissful moment, his realises that his soul is Godliness
As you See, his poems are concise, deep and Soulful.
Concept: To find the meaning of the stanza and explain the meaning of the stanza
Given: A few lines of the given poem
Find: The meaning of the lines
Solution: The above-given stanza has been taken from "Geethanjali" written by Rabindranath Tagore. In these lines, the poet says that when I talk to god in my mind, he takes away all the harsh and dissonant feelings from my heart and fills my heart with sweet harmony.
My belief in God and my devotion to God become like a bird and spreads its wings to fly high in the sky and much high above the sea.
The god guides him to write poems and increases his creativity.
Hence, the meaning of the stanza is explained now.
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