Light, oh where is the light? by Rabindranath Tagore
Channel: Poemotopia
Date: 2023-03-09

"Light, oh where is the light?", Verse 27 (XXVII) of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize-winning poetry collection, Gitanjali. This poem is about Tagore's yearning for the divine light.

Whenever a soul seeks the slightest ray of spirituality, Gitanjali or Song Offerings is there at their service. It is not only the name of a poet’s masterpiece but it is a way of seeing the unseen.

Through this heart-to-heart verse, Tagore first portrays himself as a wanderer roaming on the path of spiritual awakening. Then he realizes that kindling the lamp of love with his own life is the best way of visualizing the divine.