This presentation provides an introduction to the poem "Taj Mahal" by Rabindranath Tagore. It discusses Tagore as a Nobel Prize-winning Bengali writer who helped shape Indian art and literature. It then describes the Taj Mahal as one of the seven wonders of the world, an ivory-white marble mausoleum in Agra commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Tagore is noted as calling it "a teardrop on the cheek of eternity." The objectives are to provide knowledge about both the author and Taj Mahal's importance.

1. WELCOME
Presented by,
Sreekutty.A
B.Ed,English

2. E-CONTENT

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.

5. UNIT-1
HUES AND VIEWS

6. TAJ MAHAL
Rabindranath Tagore

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.

8. TAJ MAHAL

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’.

11. THANK YOU…