Journey Home
Journey Home - meaning Summary
Home Found Through Wandering
Tagore's "Journey Home" frames spiritual return as a long, cosmic voyage. The speaker describes leaving on the first light and wandering through many worlds and doors, a necessary outward pilgrimage that paradoxically leads inward. The poem suggests that complex seeking and repeated questioning culminate in sudden, simple recognition. Tears and cries transform into the assured affirmation "I am," signifying the inward discovery of the self or divine presence.
Read Complete AnalysesThe time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune. The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said `Here art thou!' The question and the cry `Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance `I am!'
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