STRONG MERCY
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, a poet, playwright, novelist, painter
and a musician, is a perfect embodiment of art itself.
Tagore, in the later stage of his life, believed that
language is never complete to express the fullness of thoughts of an artist.
Hence besides writing, painting became his medium of expression. However,
Tagore is well known for his literary works to which the Noble prize was
awarded (for Gitanjali).
Strong Mercy is one of Tagore’s many poems from Gitanjali, a
compilation of poems foreworded by English’s well known poet W.B. Yeats. The
poem is supposed to be a contrastive analysis of man’s nature against the
nature of God. While God is full of mercy, man on the other hand is desirous
and passionate towards things that can take him away from God. But Tagore
opines that the more the man walks away from Him, His mercies are stronger
still, to bring him back onto His track.
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