# Tagore's text

By [grapefruit](https://paragraph.com/@grapefruit) · 2022-07-19

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It is different from Haruki Murakami's youth story with sadness and hesitation in the sunshine, and it is also different from Eileen Chang's gorgeous old-fashioned love that reveals desolate vicissitudes. Tagore's writing is a unique freshness, as if the air on the untouched natural wilderness, under the overwhelming bright sunshine, opens a window to heaven for us...

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On the small and delicate light yellow cover, a flock of geese flying high, and three soft and firm black characters "Stray Birds" - this is the most conspicuous position on my desktop. on a book. And just yesterday, in the ethereal and ethereal voice of Jin Hai, I just finished reading this classic collection of Tagore's poems - "Flying Birds".

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"Flying Birds" consists of 105 poems. Each poem has only two or three short sentences, but in the dark, it quietly lights up something for us. And in these poignant short poems that combine inspiration and thinking, Tagore shows us his multiple identities - he is sometimes an infant, dancing for his mother's smile; sometimes he is a cosmopolitan The explorer of the family sighs towards the mountains and the sea; sometimes he is a young man in love, sings love for his beloved girl; sometimes he is an old man with silver hair, reflecting on his life alone in his memories; Just a nameless passer-by, recording the flashing moments of inspiration for everything in the world, and then leaving quietly with a smile.

Apart from Tagore's fresh and natural writing, in "Flying Birds", what I feel more is a kind of love for life and thinking about love. There is no doubt that Tagore's inspiration comes from life, but at the same time it is higher than life; he used his love for life to subtly hide some suffering and darkness, and dedicate the remaining light and smile to unreservedly. readers. His thoughts on love cover many aspects, including the pure love between young men and women, the eternal maternal love of a mother for her child, and the indescribable love between man and nature... Especially for love, Tagore used it without hesitation. A lot of figurative rhetoric to praise the beauty and greatness of love. In Tagore's eyes, the world needs love, and life needs love more, just as he wrote in "Flying Birds": "I believe in your love, let this be my last word."

On the other hand, Tagore captured a lot of inspiration about the natural world. He said that the dusk of the sky was like a lamp, that the leaves in the breeze were like fragments of thoughts, that the singing of birds was the echo of the morning sun from the earth; he personified everything in nature. He let the sky and the sea talk, let the birds talk to the clouds, let the flowers talk to the sun... In short, in Tagore's poems, the world is humanized, and nature is also humanized, and everything has its own growth and development. thinking; and he is merely sorting thought fragments for their humanity. And this is also the origin of the name of "Flying Birds": "Thoughts swept through my heart, like flocks of wild ducks flying across the sky, I heard the sound of their wings flying high."

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This is Tagore, this is "The Birds". Perhaps, as far as the history of human civilization is concerned, "Flying Birds" is just a drop in the ocean; however, I just want to say that it is a unique kind of freshness. The natural wilderness creates another paradise for us.

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