Waiting
Waiting - context Summary
From Gitanjali, 1910
Published in 1910 as part of Gitanjali, Tagore’s "Waiting" frames a devotional speaker who endures patient, unresolved longing. The poem’s voice describes an unsung song and an anticipated visitor whose footsteps are heard but whose arrival is delayed. It functions within Gitanjali’s larger spiritual meditation on yearning for the Divine or Beloved, using plain, intimate language to register hope, absence, and suspended expectation.
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