Chaitali

Chaitali is a late 19th-century collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. The name Chaitalee originates from the Indian language Sanskrit. The name refers to the power of the human mind.

At the close of his early literary period in 1895, sādhanā ceased to be issued, and he wrote most of the poems included in "Chaitalee", the placid and beautiful sunset of this period of work. Chaitalee is the rice gathered in the month of Chaitra. The book of this name shows the poet gathering up the '"fragments that remain, that nothing be lost", gleaning the fields of his previous works. It is written almost entirely in sonnet form, and the poems are a succession of images. 'The light that was never on sea or land,' the utter peace and toleration of the poet's mood, is over everything, transfiguring the most common sights, a girl with a buffalo, a baby and a kid, the ferry plying between villages, folk going forth to their labour at dawn. He is entering on his 'patriotic' period. The first collection of his poetry appeared in 1896.

A famous writer, Sarah Lamb, used the name Chaitalee to narrate her story in the book White Saris and Sweet Mangoes

External links

• Sample poem from the Chaitali at www.4to40.com Retrieved 2011-01-24