(Tagore is) 'making a statement of fact, just as the remembered lines from a child’s primer (jal pare/pata… — Amit Chaudhuri
(Tagore is) 'making a statement of fact, just as the remembered lines from a child’s primer (jal pare/pata nare’; rain falls/the leaf trembles) that first drew Tagore to poetry state a fact. Here, Tagore seems to be telling us that no afflatus or elaboration is necessary, because the world is at its most compelling as it is.’
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