The Kiss
The Kiss - meaning Summary
Kiss as Sacred Union
Tagore’s poem presents a kiss as an intimate, almost sacred union that fuses two lovers physically and emotionally. Using floral and maritime imagery, it depicts mutual longing, exchange, and completion as bodies meet at their limits. The kiss becomes a small ceremony—"the red marriage"—where desire, tenderness, and playful devotion create a transient but meaningful bond between two people.
Read Complete AnalysesLips’ language to lips’ ears. Two drinking each other’s heart, it seems. Two roving loves who have left home, pilgrims to the confluence of lips. Two waves rise by the law of love to break and die on two sets of lips. Two wild desires craving each other meet at last at the body’s limits. Love’s writing a song in dainty letters, layers of kiss—calligraphy on lips. Plucking flowers from two sets of lips perhaps to thread them into a chain later. This sweet union of lips is the red marriage—bed of a pair of smiles.
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