Question

Explanation of the poem paper boat stanza by stanza

Answer 1

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Explanation:

This poem is on a childhood experience. Like Wordsworth

and Walter de la Mare, Tagore also found in children a mys­tic

quality. The poem narrates the child's, experience of floating

paper boats down the stream. The child imagines that some other

child tries to compete with his boats by sending clouds down the

air in the sky.

The poem shows the child's peculiar psychology.

The child loves the worlds of playfulness and fun. Day by

day he floats paper boats down the running stream. He sends them

with the intention that they would reach some distant lands. Out of

curiosity he writes his name and address on those boats. He fondly

hopes that some­where someone will find them and know him:-

"I hope that someone in some strange land will find

Them and know who I am."

The child has always a deep sense of love. He wishes to

present the unknown friend with valuable gifts. So he loads his

boats with flowers from his garden. He hopes that the boats will

carry the flowers safely to the distant land in the

night-

"and hope that these blooms of the dawn

will be carried safely to land in the night."

When the child looks up, he sees the white clouds sailing

in the sky-

"See the little clouds setting their white bulging

sails."

He imagines that he has a friend in the sky. He thinking

that the other child sends white clouds down the air to compete

with his boats-

'I know not what playmate of mine in the sky

sends

Them down the air to race with my boats!"

At night he sees dreams in his sleep. He dreams about his

paper boats. In the dream he is happy to know that angles are

sailing in his boats.

Thus the poem shows Tagore's keen insight into the child's

mind.