Poetry of India 15/100: Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Golden Boat” and the Mystery of Loss
Part 15 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage.Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali poem often translated as “The Golden Boat” presents a speaker, a harvest and a boat that can carry away the gathered grain but not the speaker. The scene becomes an image of impermanence: labour produces something valuable, yet the worker may remain separated from the fruits of that labour…
