A Child’s Innate Wisdom and Capacity for Love: Lessons from Tagore’s Poetry Book, Crescent Moon
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Most of Tagore’s poems for children don’t seem to be written for children at all. In his collection Crescent Moon (1913) for instance, each poem is like a gentle admonishment to remind us, the adults, to tread lightly in the delicate, make-believe world of children, indulge in their fantasies and treat their trials with utmost seriousness.
A Child’s Innate Wisdom and Capacity for Love: Lessons from Tagore’s Poetry Book, Crescent Moon
A Child’s Innate Wisdom and Capacity for…
A Child’s Innate Wisdom and Capacity for Love: Lessons from Tagore’s Poetry Book, Crescent Moon
Most of Tagore’s poems for children don’t seem to be written for children at all. In his collection Crescent Moon (1913) for instance, each poem is like a gentle admonishment to remind us, the adults, to tread lightly in the delicate, make-believe world of children, indulge in their fantasies and treat their trials with utmost seriousness.