【正文】 troops killed some 400 Indian 39。s influence over Gandhi and the founders of modern India was enormous, but his reputation in the West as a mystic has perhaps mislead his Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critic of colonialism.“When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is , grant me my prayer that I may never lose touch of the one in the play of the many.”(from Gitanjali)Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta into a wealthy and prominent father was Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a religious reformer and mother, Sarada Devi, died when Tagore was very younghe did not like the he gave a beggar a cold coinwhich are in the original, my Indians tell me, full of subtlety of rhythm, of untranslatable delicacies of colour, of metrical inventiondisplay in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long.“ Tagore39。s poems were also praised by Ezra Pound, and drew the attention of the Nobel Prize mittee.”There is in him the stillness of poems do not seem to have been produced by storm or by ignition, but seem to show the normal habit of his is at one with nature, and finds no this is in sharp contrast with the Western mode, where man must be shown attempting to master nature if we are to have “great drama.”(Ezra Pound in Fortnightly Review, 1 March 1913)However, Tagore also experimented with poetic forms and these works have lost much in translations into other of Tagore39。s ideology e from the teaching of the Upahishads and from his own beliefs that God can be found through personal purity and service to stressed the need for new world order based on transnational values and ideas, the “unity consciousness.” “The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her。the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.” Politically active in India, Tagore was a supporter of Gandhi, but warned of the dangers of nationalistic to gain ideological support to his views, he retired into relative the years 1916 and 1934 he travelled his journey to Japan in 1916 he produced articles and 1927 he toured in Southeast from Java, which first was serialized in Vichitra, was issued as a book, JATRI, in Majesty, Riza Shah Pahlavi, invited Tagore to Iran in his journeys and lecture tours Tagore attempted to spread the ideal of uniting East and in Japan he wrote: “The Japanese do not waste their energy in useless screamingand quarreling, and because there is no waste of energy it is not found wanting when calmness and fortitude of body and mind is part of their national selfrealization.”Tagore wrote his most important works in Bengali, but he often translated his poems into the age of 70 Tagore took up was also a poser, settings hundreds of poems to of his poems are actually songs, and inseparable from their 39。s 39。Our Golden Bengal39。 became the national anthem of hours before he died on August 7, in 1941, Tagore dictated his last written production, still not pletely collected, fills nearly 30 substantial remained a wellknown and popular author in the West until the end of the 1920s, but nowadays he is not so much read.