Gitanjali Poem 12th Summary/Analysis

Gitanjali Poem 12^th Summary/Analysis

Poem 12 (Chapter 12)

THE time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.

I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.

It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.

The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said “Here art thou!”

The question and the cry “Oh, where?” melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance “I am!”

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Introduction

Tagore’s poem 12 is named “The time” and it is also famous by the name of Song number 12. It was published in 1910.

Summary/Analysis

He says that I took a long time and a long way to reach you. When the world was born and when the light was born, the first ray of light came itself he was given birth but he had to travel in many worlds means he had many births and he saw all the wilderness of the worst.

Thus, the poet says; my track is there from day one when the sunlight came. So, I had many births earlier and my track is there in the stars and the planets, now I have taken this birth and he says that I want this to be my last birth.

He further says traveller who knocks on several doors during his journey and only one door accepts him, is called his destiny. In the same way, I had taken so many births, I had to go to many outer worlds to find out which world will lead me to the shrine where you are there. So, in this birth, I want to enter your temple to be with you.

At last, he says, I looked everywhere, far and wide so many places and then I shut my eyes and felt that you are there, which means God is within me. I know you are inside me but I am still searching for you and I am crying and tears are falling down and these tears can make a thousand streams.

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