Stray Birds

Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore - 320 short poems by Rabindranath Tagore. These poems are beautiful, thought provoking, and somewhat reminiscent of Haiku. Known mostly for his poetry, the author also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. Stray Birds are short poems, short aphorisms which embody his love of nature and love of simplicity.

Auteur
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimedor pannedfor their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.