Paper boats essay

In bid black letters I write my name on them and the name of the village where I live. I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am. I load my little boats with shiuli flower from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night.

‘Paper Boats’ is a nice poem of Tagore, taken from his collection, “The Crescent Moon.” This poem is on a childhood experience. Like Wordsworth and Walter de la Mare, Tagore also found in children a mys­tic quality. The poem narrates the child’s, experience of floating paper boats down the stream.

When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars. The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading ins their baskets full of dreams. Login to comment... Liked or faved by... Other works by Rabindranath Tagore... Fill your pitcher. It is time fo Fill your pitcher and come home.

The child loves the worlds of playfulness and fun. Day by day he floats paper boats down the running stream. He sends them with the intention that they would reach some distant lands. Out of curiosity he writes his name and address on those boats.