Summary of Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems

Gitanjali is a collection of fifty-three poems written by the Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The poems in the collection were originally written in Bengali language and published in 1913. The translations of Tagore’s works arrived in the West in 1912 and won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The poems in the collection are incredibly rich in their meditations on nature, beauty, and spirituality. The collection as a whole speaks to the sublime power of suffering and compassion as it relates to the nature of the divine. It speaks to both the power and fragility of human life, and calls us to a higher truth than ourselves. It is a work of great depth, looking at both the physical and metaphysical worlds. The collection is considered to be one of the most powerful and influential works of the twentieth century.