UNENDING LOVE

BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
BIOGRAPHY
• Indian poet and Philosopher.
• First Asian to have won the Nobel Prize for literature (1913)
• Used themes that transcended both time and place.
• Wrote the National Anthem of Bangladesh.
• His writings are highly imaginative, deeply religious, and imbued with
love and nature.
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
VOCABULARY WORDS
 My spellbound heart
 Old chronicles of love
 In shapes that renew and renew forever
 Heaped at your feet
 Clad in the light of a pole-star
 Necklace of songs
 Piercing the darkness of time
 Ancient table of being apart
 the love of all man’s days
 Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

My spellbound heart has made and re-made the necklace of songs,

Metonymy

That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age-old pain,

It's ancient tale of being apart or together.

Allusion

As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,

Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:

Personification

You become an image of what is remembered forever.

Metaphor
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
Hyporbole

At the heart of time love of one for another.

Synecdoche

We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same

hyperbole

Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-

Oxymoron

Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Anti-thesis
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
paradox

The love of all man’s days both past and forever:

Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.

Metaphor

The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –

And the songs of every poet past and forever.

Repitition of words
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,

Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.

Repitition of Sentences/Phrase
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

The love of all man’s days both past and forever:

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