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� Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj’s� Shrimati Vimalaben Khimaji Tejookaya (SVKT),� Arts, Science and Commerce College, Deolali Camp, Nashik�

TYBA General English III

Poem: Silent Steps

Subject Teacher: Dr. Kiran Rakibe

MA Ph. D, NET

rakibe.kiran@mvpsvktcollege.ac.in

Department of English

SVKT College, Deolali Camp. Nashik

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Personal Information

Date: 5 Dec. 2020

Faculty Name: Dr. Kiran Rakibe

LMS user Name: rakibe.kiran@mvpsvktcollege.ac.in

Course: SYBA

Term : I

Year: 2020-21

Subject: Compulsory English

Session Name: Palanquin Bearers

Asynchronous Lecture: 2

Intended Date of Publishing: 14.12.2020

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Recap

Finished Language section
Discussed about the difference between prose and verse
Talked about features of Indian English Poetry

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Session Agenda

Learning objectives
About Rabindranath Tagore
About ‘Silent Steps’
Analysis of the text
Session Assessment

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Learning objectives

Learn features of Indian English Poetry
Know Tagore as a poet
To recite the poem with proper stress and intonation
Analise of the poem , Silent Steps

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About the Poet

Silent Steps, taken from Gitanjali
103 out of 157 Bengali poems of Gitanjali were into English
It is mingled with philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and patriotic smell
Tagore as a man of Versatile Genius and achievement
It took his dynamic excellence all over the globe

Silent Steps

by Rabindranath Tagore

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“Silent Steps” reveals the immanence of God
God is immanent and omnipresent
The God is invisible but his omnipresence looks everywhere and in every particle
God lives with his people all the time, in all the places in invisible form but with positive support

About the Poem

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The poet has a strong feeling of the arrival of God in every moment and every age
God comes through the dangerous forest path in the form of sweet fragrance
He comes in the form of thunder in the dark night
He comes in most dreadful danger and unpenetrated darkness too

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God is ageless and deathless
The poet has sung many songs in all kinds of mood
God has been coming since time immemorial
God is present in sorrow and happiness

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Have you not heard his silent steps?� He comes, comes, ever comes.

Every moment and every age,� every day and every night he comes, comes, ever comes

Many a song have I sung in many a mood of mind,� but all their notes have always proclaimed,� `He comes, comes, ever comes.’

In the fragrant days of sunny April through the forest path

he comes, comes, ever comes.

In the rainy gloom of July nights on the thundering chariot of clouds� he comes, comes, ever comes.

In sorrow after sorrow it is his steps that press upon my heart,� and it is the golden touch of his feet that makes my joy to shine.

Reciting the Poem

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Silent Steps

by Rabindranath Tagore

Have you not heard his silent steps?� He comes, comes, ever comes.

Every moment and every age,� every day and every night he comes, comes, ever comes.

Rhetorical Question is a kind of question in

which the answer or the information is hidden in the question itself.

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Many a song have I sung in many a mood of mind,� but all their notes have always proclaimed,� `He comes, comes, ever comes.’

In the fragrant days of sunny April through the forest path

he comes, comes, ever comes.

Inversion is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of a sentence is changed

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In the rainy gloom of July nights on the thundering chariot of clouds� he comes, comes, ever comes.

In sorrow after sorrow it is his steps that press upon my heart,� and it is the golden touch of his feet that makes my joy to shine.

Refrain is figure of speech in which a part of the line or the line is repeated in the course of the poem.

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Session Assessment

What is the title of the collection of the poetry

published by Tagore?

a) Kali b) Swaranjali c) Jejuri

d) Gitanjali

2. Silent steps in the poem ‘Silent Steps’ stand for

a) foot step b) existence c) prayer

d) blessings

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Session Assignment

The poem ‘Silent Steps’ ends on the optimistic note? Illustrate.

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Thank You so Much