The Gardener 85: Hundred Years
The Gardener 85: Hundred Years - meaning Summary
A Voice Across Centuries
Tagore addresses a distant future reader, imagining someone encountering his poems a hundred years later. He accepts he cannot physically send gifts from his present but asks the reader to open their own garden and gather memories of vanished blooms. The poem links past and future through shared feeling: the original springtime joy that once sang can be felt again, transmitted across a century by memory and poetic voice.
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