Rabindranath Tagore

In conclusion, Mahatma Gandhi was the primary leader of India’s independence movement and also the architect of a form of non-violent civil disobedience that would influence the world. He died sadly in 1948 when. Around one million people followed the precision as Gandhi’s body was carried in state through the streets of the

Thesis: A true leader, an anti-war activist, and the leader of India’s independence movement, Mohandas Gandhi was a man of great significance.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is known as one of the most famous artists of the 21st century. He was the first Indian to receive the Noble Prize for literature in 1913 and his works are still read throughout the world today. He has composed more than 2200 songs, painted more than 5000 paintings, and written over 70 children plays and numerous short stories. Among these short stories is “Punishment”; in the story Tagore focuses on the condition of women in India; how women are suppressed living day-to-day and whether justice is served to the righteous.

There are not many in India who have written poetry in English. Among them, Sarojini Naidu stands first. Her poems are praised not only in India, but all over the world.

the best of Sanskrit writers. We are in this manner on fronted with one of the astounding

generation’s most gifted dabbler. He proved that a jack of all trades could, very rarely, be master

My paper deals with the analysis of selected poems from “Gitanjali” by Rabindranath Tagore. Also it talks about what Gitanjali is all about and Rabindranath Tagore’s biography. He is the first non-European to be awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. My paper also talks about his important work. I was deeply moved by reading his work as his poetry is spiritual in nature and it talks about his philosophies, peace and harmony is important for the nation and humanity. It includes my own analysis of three poems from Gitanjali “Leave this chanting and telling of beads”, “Where the mind is without fear” and “Cloud heaps upon cloud and it darkens”. My paper ends with the conclusion.

His first book was The Garden of Abdul Gasazi in 1979. He showed the world that he was a talented storybook writer. The public responded by buying more than a million copies. This book also received a Caldecott Medal Award. He would follow up with wonderful books such as The Mysteries of Harris Bur*censored*.

During his first year of college he began publishing poetry, within a year of graduation he published his first collection. Some of works includes: The Business of Fancy dancing (1992) and The

Aroused by the massacre of Amritsar in 1919, Gandhi devoted his life to gaining India’s independence from Great Britain. As the dominant figure used his persuasive philosophy of non-violent confrontation, he inspired political activists with many persuasions throughout the world (Andrews 23). Not only was Mahatma Gandhi a great peacemaker, but also his work to achieve freedom and equality for all people was greatly acknowledged. Gandhi’s unconventional style of leadership gained him the love of a country and eventually enabled him to lead the independence movement in India.

Poetry gave Alexie his start as an author with his first published collection being The Business of Fancydancing but found that his poems, which he considered stories, were exceeding a mere page. The transformation into short stories began

Mohandas K. Gandhi, known to the world as The Mahatma, or the "Great Soul", brought a great gift to the modern world. That gift was the light of Non-Violence, of Service to the Community and of Social Justice. His life served as an example and this light became a torch which illuminated our world and which saved us from our own

Robert Burns turned his full attention to poetry after what happened with his family and at age of fifteen he fell in love and wrote his first poem, burns pursued both love and poetry. In 1785 he fathered the first of his fourteen children and between 1784 and 1785 burns collected in his first collection which was Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect and was printed in 1786 and was also paid for by subscriptions. That poem was immediately one of the best and robert was celebrated throughout England and Scotland as a great “peasant poet.” He wrote many more poems and later in 1788 he got married to Jean Armour and fathered twins, but a split in their marriage nearly led to burns moving to the west indies with his other lover Mary Campbell, later with Mary’s sudden death and his sensational success of his first published collection that kept him in scotland, burns became very known and famous across the country of scotland at just 27 years old. Burns would not only make poems but would also sometimes turn them into songs and give them for someone to perform.

“Gunga Din” is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1890, which is known as the Edwardian time period. This era was a time of war and change for it was “[t]he period in English literature between the death of Victoria in 1901 and

Markandaya was one a hand few that wrote in English. The most probable cause, such as Chinua Achebe’s case, was to reach a bigger audience and enlighten the world of what it was really like during great industrialization and times of strife. The Indian government was not likely to help their