The search for a is often an attempt to touch this philosophy. The poem reflects a total surrender to the cosmos. He writes of death not as an extinguishing of the lamp, but as the dawn breaking—the end of a journey on earth and the beginning of an eternal voyage.
The poem is startlingly brief—a hallmark of Tagore’s late style, which had shed all ornamentation for raw, elemental truth. It is written as a conversation with death, or with God (whom Tagore often called "Jeebandebota" – the Lord of Life). the last poem by rabindranath tagore pdf