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''Gitanjali'' ((ベンガル語:গীতাঞ্জলি)) is a collection of poems by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems was published on August 14, 1910. The English ''Gitanjali'' or ''Song Offerings'' is a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems which were from his drama ''Achalayatan'' and eight other books of poetry — mainly ''Gitimalya'' (17 poems), ''Naivedya'' (15 poems) and ''Kheya'' (11 poems).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://frontierweekly.com/pdf-files/vol-44-5/com-44-5.pdf )〕 The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems (song 95, which unifies songs 89,90 of ''Naivedya''). The translations were undertaken prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well received. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English ''Gitanjali''. The English ''Gitanjali'' became very famous in the West, and was widely translated. The word ''gitanjali'' is composed from "gita", song, and "anjali", offering, and thus means – "An offering of songs"; but the word for offering, ''anjali'', has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as "prayer offering of song".〔 ==Poems== Some poems involve themes related to nature, but here, too, the spiritual is subtly present, as in this poem (no. 57):
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