ch for unity, and it attracted the young man who came from a family which "saw the world as a set of interlocking units and invariably advocated synthesis as the means of keeping the units from breaking apart" (Lago 40). This was a view addressed not only at the religious and philosophical but also at social and political problems. It was an inclusive view that sought to bring together all aspects of human thought.
The Gitanjali was published at the beginning of the twentieth century, but in the poetry of Tagore, there is a strain of romanticism that ties the poet to an earlier century. Tagore is sentimental about the past and so about tying the past to the present, finding a unity through history that he also seeks in
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