Collection of Songs: Collection of Flowing Fireflies (complete Translation of Rabindranath Tagore's English Poems)
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"Song Collection" (old translation "Gitanjali") is one of Tagore's most representative collections of poetry and the main work that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. "Song Collection" contains 103 prose poems, which are "fragrant flowers and fruits dedicated to the gods". In his poems, Tagore jumped out of the framework of traditional religion and regarded gods as a universal spiritual force, closely connected with all things in the universe and human life. This collection of poems also includes an introduction written by Yeats, another Nobel Prize winner, the famous Irish poet, the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature award speech and the dinner speech. "The Collection of Flowing Fireflies" contains 258 short poems, and together with "The Collection of Wandering Birds" is known as the two short poems in Rabindranath Tagore's poetry collection. "The Collection of Flowing Fireflies" originated from Tagore's trip to Japan and China. The poems in it were creatively influenced by Japanese haiku and Chinese quatrains. They are short and readable yet have long meanings, and are full of the poet's profound perception of life.
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