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The document provides biographical information about Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, musician, and painter. It also summarizes his poem "Paper Boats" which is about a child who floats paper boats in a stream, writing their name and village on them, hoping someone may find them. The child imagines clouds racing the boats and dreams the boats continue sailing with fairies and dreams. Key details are provided on Tagore's life and accomplishments as well as explanations of terms used in the poem like shiuli flower and dawn.

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Paper Boats

The document provides biographical information about Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, musician, and painter. It also summarizes his poem "Paper Boats" which is about a child who floats paper boats in a stream, writing their name and village on them, hoping someone may find them. The child imagines clouds racing the boats and dreams the boats continue sailing with fairies and dreams. Key details are provided on Tagore's life and accomplishments as well as explanations of terms used in the poem like shiuli flower and dawn.

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WELCOME

Presenting By

ARIFA K

PAPER BOATS

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

BORN

: 7 May 1861

DIED

: 7 August 1941

OCCUPATION

: Poet, Short story writer,


Song Composer and Novelist

LANGUAGE

: Bengali, English

NOTABLE WORKS

: Gitanjali,Gora, Ghare-Baire,
Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra
Sangeet, Amar Shonar Bangla

NOTABLE AWARDS

: Nobel Prize in
Literature(1913)

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream.
In big 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.
I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the
little clouds setting thee white bulging sails.
I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down
the air to race with my boats!
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 in
their baskets full of dreams.

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream.
In big 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.
I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the
little clouds setting thee white bulging sails.
I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down
the air to race with my boats!
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 in
their baskets full of dreams.

: A kind of White flower


SHUILI FLOWER

DAWN

: Early morning when


sunlight begins to appear
in the sky

SUMMARY
Paper Boats is a nice poem of Tagore, taken
from his collection, "The Crescent Moon." This
poem narrates the childs experience of
floating Paper Boats down the Stream . The
child imagines that some other child tries to
compete with his boats by sending clouds
down the air in the sky. He sends them with the
intention that they would reach some distant
lands and someone will find them and know
him. So he writes his name and villages on the
boats. He wishes to present the unknown
friend with valuable gift like flower from his

1. What does the speaker do with the paper boats?


Ans. The speaker floats paper boats in the
stream.
2. What does he writes on the paper boats?
Ans. He writes his name and villages on the
paper
boats.
3. What
does he puts on the paper boats?

Ans.
He puts
the poem
paper .boats.
4. Name
the flower
flower on
in the

Ans.
Shuili
flower.
5. What
is the
dream of the speaker?

Ans. The speaker dreams that the fairies of


sleeps are sailing on his boats.

ASSIGNMENT
Imagine that you are the
speaker in this poem and
write a diary on the day you
floats your boat.

ARIFA K
ROLL NO: 9
OPTIONAL: ENGLISH
UCTE MUVATTUPUZHA

THANK YOU

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