Summary of the poem taj mahal written by rabindranath tagore


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Here is my brief response to the poem " Taj Mahal" by Rabindranath Tagore. The poem is a celebration of love and also the building that commemorates the love between a Mughal Emperor and his wife.
In some ways the poem reminds me of Shelley's " Ozymandias" as both speak about the transience of life but while Shelley concentrates on the transience of power and glory and satirises Ozymandias by using the broken statue to show us that worldly power and glory are subject to degradation and decay , in Tagore's " Taj Mahal" , love , even worldly love if true will outlast the passing of time. The image of the Taj Mahal as " a tear drop" in the " cheek of eternity" is both enchanting and sad at the same time. In this poem, Tagore suggests that Shah Jehan was aware that power , wealth and glory, all fade away " in the current of time"...so Shah Jehan built the Taj Mahal " to perpetuate the sorrow of his heart" but wished to perpetuate his love( and grief at his beloved queens passing away) in this memorial, the Taj Mahal. 
The king is no more and his empire has " vanished" like a dream, his musicians too have passed away but the symbol of his love , the Taj Mahal carries the " ageless" and timeless message of the Emperor's love. It is an " untarnished 
love".
As Shakespeare suggests in sonnet 116 , true love survives time and death.

Tagore is just as aware as Shelley of the transience of life, but whereas Shelley concentrates on the futility and vanity of human ( Ozymandias's ) achievement, Tagore concentrates on the beauty of love as depicted in the image of the tear drop of the emperor captured in the form of the Taj Mahal , glittering on the " cheek of time ". Ozymandias shattered form shows that this emperor could not survive the ravages of time.

There is much more that can be said about Tagore's views on the transience of life and I am always reminded of his attitude to death in the lines: None lasts for ever, and nothing lasts for long
 So keep this in mind and rejoice


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