Poem railway station by rabindranath tagore biography
'Railway Station' is a desolate poem that looks at how humanity has lost connection in the modernised society and how this pain is caused by this knowledge..
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The poem contrasts the static nature of the station with the dynamic motion of trains and passengers, symbolizing life's ephemeral nature.
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The poet engages in a number of different narrator points-of-view in this collection. Many are written from a first-person perspective in which the speaker seems to be a projection of the poet.
The collection's many narrative poems, however, are told using a third-person perspective in which the persona of the narrative voice is anonymous.
The poet usually works in free verse without any set meter.
The bulk of the poems in this collection are examples of either the form of lyric poetry or narrative verse.
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/ Along the sea-shore the sun shines, the sea breaks and rolls." From "Highest Price"
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