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Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Golden Boat’: Loss, Time and the Limits of Possession

Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali poem commonly known in English as “The Golden Boat” uses a river scene, a harvest and a boat that carries away what the speaker cannot keep. The poem’s symbolic openness has encouraged many readings: it may suggest loss, the passage of time, the limits of possession or the distance between human effort and what the world receives. This essay focuses on its central im…

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Poetry of India 15/100: Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Golden Boat” and the Mystery of Loss

Part 15 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage. Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali poem often translated as “The Golden Boat” presents a speaker, a harvest and a boat that can carry away the gathered grain but not the speaker. The scene becomes an image of impermanence: labour produces something valuable, yet the worker may remain separated from the fruits of that labou…

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