Shesh Lekha: The Last Poems of Rabindranath Tagore

by Rabindranath Tagore

This collection is not only the last testament of Tagore but is significant in many other ways. Most of the untitled poems in this book were literally written on his death bed. Word-wizardy was always one of Tagore's strongest appeals. But in Sesh Lekha it touches a point of mystifingly subtle communocation. The language is bare, the imagery striking and the expression spartan.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....

Reviews

[Simran · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection got me high on poetry . If you're a poetry lover, you'd understand exactly what I'm saying. .. I was in Paris , sitting in a lovely garden with one of my best friends, and we read these poems out loud to each other. The air was suddenly filled with a stillness and pleasure. Each word pronounced was like fresh honey. The world ceased to exist, and in my mind I was sitting near Gurudev Tagore's feet on his death bed as he wrote these untitled poems, which really don't need any introduction or title. They're a lifetime, magically written in words.

[Shruthi Proddutur · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice and good book, has 15 poems which was written by tagore in his death bed

[Sneha Bollepalli · Rating 5 out of 5]

No words to describe.

Though the poems were not named yet they give a complete insight into the life, into death and much beyond it.