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I Cannot Remember My Mother - English First
I Cannot Remember My Mother - English First
I Cannot Remember My Mother - English First
AND JR COLLEGE
STD: IV
SUBJECT: ENGLISH FIRST
TOPIC: I CANNOT REMEMBER MY MOTHER
By Rabindranath Tagore
About the Poet :
Rabindranath Tagore, popularly known as Gurudev (1861 (1941) was a Bengali poet,
dramatist and novelist. Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature for his work, Gitanjali.
He founded the Shanthiniketan to promote Indian Culture, Art and Music. Tagore lost
his mother when he was a child.
This poem I cannot remember my mother is about a child who does not remember his
dead mother. But the child perhaps carries some associations of the mother’s image in
his mind.
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