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What is Rasa in Indian poetry?
What is Rasa in Indian poetry?
- A pleasant sentiment evoked by reading poems (correct)
- A type of food
- A type of musical instrument
- A type of dance
What is Tagore's contribution to Indian literature?
What is Tagore's contribution to Indian literature?
- He was the first Indian poet
- He wrote only about love
- He wrote in English only
- He was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (correct)
What was Tagore's father's contribution to Indian society?
What was Tagore's father's contribution to Indian society?
- He was a politician
- He was a musician
- He was a businessman
- He was a scholar who investigated religion and led a non-aggressive movement to rid Hinduism of idolatry and Indian society of religious abuses (correct)
What was Tagore's first volume of poems?
What was Tagore's first volume of poems?
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What is integral to Tagore's poetic expression?
What is integral to Tagore's poetic expression?
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Study Notes
- Rasa is a key element in Indian poetry, defined as a pleasant sentiment evoked by reading poems
- Rasa is considered the essential element in poetry, equivalent to beauty of aesthetic emotion
- Rabindranath Tagore was a notable Indian poet and the first from Asia to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Tagore's father was a scholar who turned to investigating religion, leading to a non-aggressive movement to rid Hinduism of idolatry and Indian society of religious abuses
- Tagore was the fourteenth child in a family of fifteen, and was surrounded by artistic interests in his formative years
- Tagore's first volume of poems established him as a poet of genius at the age of twenty
- His English version of Gitanjali brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912
- Tagore traveled widely and influenced poets wherever he went, including in Japan
- The metaphor of his beloved homeland is integral to Tagore's poetic expression
- Religious faith is fundamental to all of Tagore's poetry, even the love lyrics.
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