A Synthesized World of Ideas

Weaving a Narrative Thread through Rabindranath Tagore’s Selected Poems, Letters, and Speeches

Abstract

Tagore’s idea of ‘Visvasahitya’ presents a deeply philosophical understanding and successfully threads together Upanishadic high theory with contemporary popular folk culture. His ideas speak of the universal values that world literature can embody and its cross-cultural articulation is truly reflected in his aesthetic philosophy, concerning how truth and beauty cannot be understood unless human nature is studied in tandem with the world in its totality. This paper will look at Tagore’s writings (in the 21st century through a Cultural Materialist lens) in tandem with the philosophical ideology that he exhibited for a united-synthesized world and will try to bring the contemporary reader on the same theoretical plane.