3. INTRODUCTION
This is a presentation on the poem TAJ MAHAL by Rabindranath Tagore
which is included in the SCERT Kerala State Syllabus 8th standard
English text book.
4. OBJECTIVES
To know the author Rabindranath Tagore.
To get a knowledge about Taj Mahal and its importance.
7. RABINDRANATH TAGORE(1861-1941)
Bengali writer who reshaped Bengali
literature and music as well as Indian art in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author
of Gitanjali and it’s ‘profoundly sensitive,
fresh and beautiful verse’, he became the first
non-European to win the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry
was viewed as spiritual and influential.
9. TAJ MAHAL
Taj Mahal is considered as one of the seven wonders of the world.
It is a work of art that excels time and history.
Tagore described it as the ‘A teardrop on the cheek of eternity’.
It is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the southern bank of the
river Yamuna in Agra.
It is commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to
house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
10. CONCLUSION
Students got an overall idea about the poet Rabindranath Tagore and
the immortal creation Taj Mahal.
Students became mentally ready to learn the poem ‘TAJ MAHAL’ which
is an excerpt from the poem ‘SHAH JAHAN’.
