endless time by Tagore, KIU skardu campus

1. Design
By Naseem Hasrat

2.  Naseem Hasrat
 Muhammad Ilyas
 Ishaq Noori

4.  Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali
renaissance man of his era.
 He was born in Kolkata, India.
 His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and
essays have been an epicenter of wisdom.
 Tagore is most widely known for his poetry.
 He took an active interest in a wide separate
range of social, cultural and artistic activities.
 He has been described as one of the first 20th
centuries' global man.

5.  He began writing early age and impressed
with his free flowing style and spontaneous
composition.
 He mostly rejected formal schooling.
 He spend much been taught at home.
 In 1878 he traveled to England and sought to
study law at University college London but he
left before finishing the degree.
 Tagore was firm friends with Gandi and
admired him very much but despite this
friendship he could he critical of his views.

6.  He also became acquainted with many of the
leading cultural contemporary of the day:
G.B Shaw, Robert Frost, Albert Einstein, etc.
 Tagore has a great love for nature and many
of his poems invoke the simple beauties of
the natural world.
 Tagore was the first ever Asian recipient of
the Nobel Prize.

7.  Novels
 Stories
 Poetry
 Poems & Songs
 Plays & Operas

8.  Chaturange
 Chokher Bali
 Ghare Baire
 Nastanirh
 Jogajog
 Shesher Kobita
 The Wreck

9.  Kabuliwala (story)
 Valmiki-Praṭibha (1888) (play)
 Raja (1910) (play)
 The Post Office (1912) (play)
 Chitra (1914) (play)

10.  Rabindra Sangeet
 "Amar Sonar Bangla"
 "Birpurush"
 "Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo"
 "Ekla Chalo Re"
 "Jana Gana Mana"

11.  Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali (1884)
 Gitanjali (1910)

12.  Gitanjali (Bengali) is a collection of poems by
the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
 The original Bengali collection of 157 poems
was published on August 14, 1910.
 The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a
collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's
own English translations of his Bengali poems
first published in November 1912 by the India
Society of London.

13.  In this poem he speaks about the nature of
time.
 We mortal beings believe that time has
certain limitations and we usually feel the
need to accomplish a lot before our life
comes to an end as we believe that there is
time only till we meet our death.

14.  The poet presents the idea that time is
endless and is in the hands of the almighty,
who is the creator.
 He further adds that for God there is no limit
to time as he has seen centuries pass by and
will continue to do so for centuries to come.
 Time is infinite for the almighty. We mortals
seem to be in a hurry to do as much as
possible, fearing that we might be late to do
certain things and may lose out on certain
opportunities.

15.  In doing so, we tend to get impatient when
we feel like time is running out of our hands
and yet there is a lot to achieve.
 The poet wants to convey that time is divine,
yet one must not cling to it.
 We must value time as it is a precious thing
but must also learn to live for the moment.

16.  The poem is all about time.

17. Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
There is none to count thy minutes.
Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like
flowers.
Thou knowest how to wait.
Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild
flower.
We have no time to lose,
and having no time we must scramble for a chance.
We are too poor to be late.
And thus it is that time goes by
while I give it to every querulous man who claims it,
and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.
At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be
shut;
but I find that yet there is time.

18.  The poet says that time is in the hands of the
almighty and is infinite in nature.
 One cannot count his minutes as time has no
beginning and no end. Days and night pass by
and so do ages, just like flowers keep blooming
and withering.
 God has watched all this patiently over centuries
and centuries which seem to follow one after the
other.
 Time does not stop at any point. We mortal
beings feel the need to rush through things as we
feel we have no time to waste and have to
accomplish a lot in this one lifetime

19.  We do not want to miss out on opportunities
and in our rush we often forget to value each
moment.
 Men tend to get impatient with time as they
feel it keeps passing by and there is a lot one
has to do before their life comes to an end.
 It is only at the time of death that one
realises that time is divine in nature and his
existence may come to end but time will
continue to go on for ages.

20.  The basic idea being conveyed through this
poem is that of the infinite nature of time.
 The poet says time is endless and is in the
hands of the creator God.
 Time has no beginning and no end and hence
cannot be stopped.
 It goes on for ages and ages even after one
perishes.

21.  One’s life comes to an end and it is then that
one realises that time will continue to exist
and he may not know what happens after his
death but one door always opens after
another closes.
 Time is the very precious thing in this life
and we human beings are to be make
ourselves the limitation of time that has
given to us by the divine grace though we
cannot understand or read the exactness of
longevity of life.

22.  But at the same time we are bound to live at
every moment having self conscious about
the time and Rabindranath Tagore's famous
poem is so much interested to read and
understand.
 The holistic approach to time and world
situation is a good thing for leading a life of
perfection accepting all positive qualities
indeed

23.  The poem has been written in Early Modern
English as we can see the use of words like ‘thy’,
‘thou’ and ‘thine’. It has no rhymes or a regular
rhythm.
 Metaphor has been used in the poem. The
comparison of passing of ages to the ‘blooming
and fading of flowers’ and centuries passing by
like a ‘small wild flower’, are two such
examples.
 The poet uses a ironic tone in the stanza where
he says ‘we have no time to lose’ as he is
indicating the impatience of men and is actually
speaking about the infinite nature of time.

24.  The last line of the poem leaves the reader
with a sense of uncertainty as the poet might
hint at the metaphysical aspects of rebirth or
afterlife.
 He may also simply mean to say that the
doors of God are always open for everyone.

25. Thanks for patience!!!