Rabindranath Tagore was a renowned Bengali poet, musician, and artist who won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. The poem "The Last Bargain" describes the poet seeking employment from different people but finding their offers lacking until a child offers to hire him with nothing, making him a free man. In four stanzas, the king offers to hire the poet with power, a rich man with money, a fair maid with a smile, but it is a child playing on the beach who recognizes the poet and hires him with nothing, granting him true freedom.

1. THE LAST BARGAIN
: Rabindranath Tagore
Prepared By: Surendra uikey
(TGT-Eng.) KV NLC

2. ABOUT THE POET
●
Rabindranath Tagore was born as Robindronath Thakur
on May 7, 1861, to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada
Devi in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British
India(present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India).
●
A poet, musician, polymath, Ayurveda-researcher and
artist who recast music, Bengali literature and Indian art.
●
1913, Tagore awarded by Nobel Prize in Literature.
●
composed nearly 2,230 songs which are known as
'Rabindrasangit'.

3. STANZA I
"Come and hire me," I cried, while in the morning I was
walking on the stone-paved road.
Sword in hand, the King came in his chariot.
He held my hand and said, "I will hire you with my power."
But his power counted for nought, and he went away in his
chariot.

4. STANZA II
In the heat of the midday the houses stood with shut doors.
I wandered along the crooked lane.
An old man came out with his bag of gold.
He pondered and said, "I will hire you with my money."
He weighed his coins one by one, but I turned away.

5. STANZA III
It was evening. The garden hedge was all aflower.
The fair maid came out and said, "I will hire you with
a smile."
Her smile paled and melted into tears, and she went
back alone into the dark.

6. STANZA IV
The sun glistened on the sand, and the sea waves broke
waywardly.
A child sat playing with shells.
He raised his head and seemed to know me, and said, "I
hire you with nothing."
From thenceforward that bargain struck in child's play
made me a free man.

7. THANK YOU........