Título: Rabindranath Tagore
Seção: Twilight years: 1932-1941
Background: Rabindranath Tagore FRAS ( ( listen); Bengali: [robindronath thakur]), also written Ravindranatha Thakura (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.

Conteúdo: Dutta and Robinson describe this phase of Tagore's life as being one of a "peripatetic litterateur". It affirmed his opinion that human divisions were shallow. During a May 1932 visit to a Bedouin encampment in the Iraqi desert, the tribal chief told him that "Our prophet has said that a true Muslim is he by whose words and deeds not the least of his brother-men may ever come to any harm ..." Tagore confided in his diary: "I was startled into recognizing in his words the voice of essential humanity." To the end Tagore scrutinised orthodoxy--and in 1934, he struck. That year, an earthquake hit Bihar and killed thousands. Gandhi hailed it as seismic karma, as divine retribution avenging the oppression of Dalits. Tagore rebuked him for his seemingly ignominious implications. He mourned the perennial poverty of Calcutta and the socioeconomic decline of Bengal, and detailed these newly plebeian aesthetics in an unrhymed hundred-line poem whose technique of searing double-vision foreshadowed Satyajit Ray's film Apur Sansar. Fifteen new volumes appeared, among them prose-poem works Punashcha (1932), Shes Saptak (1935), and Patraput (1936). Experimentation continued in his prose-songs and dance-dramas-- Chitra (1914), Shyama (1939), and Chandalika (1938)-- and in his novels-- Dui Bon (1933), Malancha (1934), and Char Adhyay (1934).  Tagore's remit expanded to science in his last years, as hinted in Visva-Parichay, a 1937 collection of essays. His respect for scientific laws and his e

user: What are the twilight years?

assistant: Dutta and Robinson describe this phase of Tagore's life as being one of a "peripatetic litterateur".

user: What happened in 1932?

assistant: During a May 1932 visit to a Bedouin encampment in the Iraqi desert,

user: What happened during the visit?

assistant: tribal chief told him that "Our prophet has said that a true Muslim is he by whose words and deeds not the least of his brother-men

user: What did Tagore do next?

assistant: Tagore confided in his diary: "I was startled into recognizing in his words the voice of essential humanity."

user: What did he do after that?

assistant: He mourned the perennial poverty of Calcutta and the socioeconomic decline of Bengal,

user: Did he write about this experience?

assistant: detailed these newly plebeian aesthetics in an unrhymed hundred-line poem

user: Did he have other things he wrote?

assistant: Tagore's remit expanded to science in his last years, as hinted in Visva-Parichay, a 1937 collection of essays.