Mysticism in Tagore's Gitanjali

Tagore's Gitanjali is one of the masterpieces of Indian English poetry and it is a song offering to the Deity. This paper aims to analyze the quest for mysticism in Gitanjali It is concerned with examining Tagore's collections of poems, Gitanjali from the perspective of the poet's love of nature and of God. It seeks to find a religious explanation for Tagore's perpetual praise of the natural world, a praise that he was able to connect dynamically to his love of God. The paper ends by addressing briefly how Tagore's naturalism, rooted in a tradition extending back to sacred text, leads the poet to a mystical expression of personality through his poems.