Lost Star
Lost Star - meaning Summary
Perfection and the Lost Star
Tagore's 'Lost Star' imagines early creation when gods celebrate perfect heavens, then notice a missing star and mourn the perceived loss as unique joy. Their continuous search expresses human longing and grief for an ideal thought to be gone. In contrast, the stars' quiet counsel—that perfection remains unbroken—offers a consoling perspective: what seems irretrievably lost may be part of an intact order beyond anxious perception.
Read Complete AnalysesWhen the creation was new and all the stars shone in their first splendor, the gods held their assembly in the sky and sang `Oh, the picture of perfection! the joy unalloyed!' But one cried of a sudden ——`It seems that somewhere there is a break in the chain of light and one of the stars has been lost.' The golden string of their harp snapped, their song stopped, and they cried in dismay ——`Yes, that lost star was the best, she was the glory of all heavens!' From that day the search is unceasing for her, and the cry goes on from one to the other that in her the world has lost its one joy! Only in the deepest silence of night the stars smile and whisper among themselves ——`Vain is this seeking! Unbroken perfection is over all!'
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