Imagery and Symbols in Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali

The study focuses on the imagery and symbols in Gitanjali written by Rabindranath Tagore one of the Nobel Prize winners. It has been divided into five broad sections. As in nature the first section titled introduction where the author writes an introduction to Rabindranath Tagore life and works of him Gitanjali and its seven parts. The second section talks about the originality and variety of themes mysticism and romanticism Tagore’s lyricism his universality diction and style. The third section lights on the imagery used in Gitanjali which includes introductions to imagery definition of imagery according to poets kinds of images in the poem and the lyrics where the imagery effectively handled by him in 103 songs. The fourth section describes the symbols projected in Gitanjali which includes introduction to symbols etymology various symbols dealt in the poem. The final section is summary and conclusion.