Question

Why did he load shiuli flowers in his boat?

Answer 1

Rabindranath Tagore is an outstanding poet of modern India. He was the first to popularise modem India in the world literary scene. Pri­marily he was a Bengali poet. But he was equally a master at writing in English. He translated many of his works into English. His poetry shows his deep humanism. His is a universal message of peace, love and joy. He transcends the barriers of space and time. So his poetry has a universal appeal.

'Paper Boats' is a nice poem of Tagore, taken from his collection, "The Crescent Moon." 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:-

Answer 2

Answer:

The poet filled his boat with "shiuli" flowers because he thought it would be both fun and exciting. On top of that, he used to gift the stranger who would find his boat.

Explanation:

The poem "Day by day I float my paper boat" was written by the famous Rabindranath Tagore. He was extremely imaginative and thought that life should be fun. He filled his boat with flowers and wrote his name on it with the thought that a stranger would accept the gift as a mark of friendship and would know his name.