Sunday, July 18, 2010

Rabindranath's Literary Genres

Rabindranath was a poet . He mentioned, "I say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature."  No doubt that he was first of all a poet and he wrote more than thousand poems, more than fifty Kabya Granthas and constructed more than two thousands songs of which he wrote both the words and the music. But he contributed over thousand essays on literary, social, religious, political, and on other topics. he also contributed in all the branches of literary activities and wrote innumerable letters to his relatives, known and unkown friends. A detailed work of Rabindranath had been tabulated in the margin.