write the Sammary of golden boat written by Rabindranath Tagore and is translated by willam Radice
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Explanation:
The theme of loneliness was much sought after by most of the Romantics. Wordsworths’ ‘Daffodils’ begins with the line “I wandered lonely as a cloud...”. In Keats’ “Ode To A Nightingale”, we have the narrator sitting all alone and musing over the melody of the bird’s song. The Ancient Mariner is all alone on the wide wide sea. This aspect as seen in the poetry of the Romantics can be noticed in Tagore’s poetry too.
Loneliness is not merely being alone; it is an outlook, a mood that is reflected by the aid of external phenomenon like a lonely road, a lonely star or a lonely tree. They are just symbols to portray the loneliness present in the inner self.
Loneliness is sometimes enjoyed. At times it is shown as something frightening, and at most of the times, very depressing.
In Tagore’s poem loneliness lends intensity to the theme. For example in the poem ‘THE GOLDEN BOAT’ loneliness is presented with a tinge of pathos. The narrator is all alone sitting on the river bank and his harvest is ready. He puts the harvest load in a boat that goes to the other side of the place left for him. The boat sails away leaving him all alone on the bare river bank. The poem starts with the lines
“Clouds rumbling in the sky, teeming rains, I sit on the river bank, Sand and alone, The scene is all set,
“The river is swollen and fierce in its flow As we cut the paddy it started to rain.”
So one can intute that things are heading towards something tragic. The boat coming nearer and taking all the paddy are all incidents linked with each other. Ultimately the narrator’s only companion is again loneliness.
“On the bare river, bank, I remain alone
What I had has gone, the golden boat took all-”
Basically the fact remains that this loneliness is a culmination of helplessness. On all sides he is faced with situations he cannot escape from. There is the harvest that is ready, it has to be cut and stored, on the other side there is rain, so the narrator is left with no choice but to put the paddy in the boat...These incidents are just symbolic representations of man’s life which is at all stages dominated by circumstances and the various vicissitudes of life. At each stage when man gains something he loses some other thing; At each stage he goes through the lonely phase of depression, which he tries to overcome gradually.
The poem ‘Bride’ is a realistic portrayal of the feelings of a new bride. She is all alone.
“As I sit alone with my thought I seem to hear Days ending....
She is worried for there is nobody to share her feelings. She is a village girl and the city atmosphere frightens and depresses her.
“Oh this city with its stony body
Its massive loveless fist has squeezed and crushed
A young girl’s feelings, pitilessly.”
She misses the “boundless fields”, “the open paths”, “the bird’s song” and the “trees.”
She weeps; but there is no one to comfort her; she feels lonely, but the city folk take no heed of her feelings and she “loiters alone”, she longs for her mother and wishes to die and ultimately questions
“When will my evening come?
All playing end!
The cooling water quench all fires?
If anyone knowns, tell me when.”
The poem is a true picture of the new village bride unable to adjust in the city. The loneliness hangs on. It is a loneliness amidst a crowd. Internally the bride suffers from the pangs of loneliness. Neither the brightness of the moon, nor the flowers can give her any pleasure because she is starved of love and gaiety. When the heart moans, nothing around the world seems pleasant.
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The Golden Boat is all about how lie goes on. The boats accepts all the harvest, which is - the lifelong toil of the speaker. All our work is accepted by time but we ourselves are not aqquired in the world scheme. The Golden Boat also known as the Boat of Fame is the time , which is the greatest and waits for none. Our work is saved but us, humans are not immortal.
( This is a short summary only.)
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