This Dog Poem by Rabindranath Tagore
This Dog
Every morning this dog, very attached to me,
Quietly keeps sitting near my seat
Till touching its head
I recognize its company.
This recognition gives it so much joy
Pure delight ripples through its entire body.
Among all dumb creatures
It is the only living being
That has seen the whole man
Beyond what is good or bad in him
It has seen
For his love it can sacrifice its life
It can love him too for the sake of love alone
For it is he who shows the way
To the vast world pulsating with life.
When I see its deep devotion
The offer of its whole being
I fail to understand
By its sheer instinct
What truth it has discovered in man.
By its silent anxious piteous looks
It cannot communicate what it understands
But it has succeeded in conveying to me
Among the whole creation
What is the true status of man.
Tagore always impresses me the most with his strong ending verses in his poems. For the last verse in this poem, it really does say a lot, on how dogs instincts on a person's nature are most often correct. I found it beautiful the way he summed up man and dogs relationship in such a vulnerable way, like how fine of a line it is to a dogs heart, you are either bad or good, black or white.
Very nicely expressed the feeling of a dog, the best friend of humans.
.........a wonderful tribute to some of the smartest creatures on the planet ★
Well, I love my cat, but it's the same, it's much different at the appearance, but boyh ask for, and give affection.
In the subtle but sweet manner the poet has turned the ode on a dog to something that leads to the prception of mankind.
Great poets have written so well on dogs. They are true friends.
Silence is the real language...in it communication happens......
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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I used to think poetry sucked even though I never tried to understand it. 'The fool doesn't care whether he understands a thing or not; all he cares is to show how clever he is' Proverbs 18: 2. God gives wisdom through His word indeed. I like this poem, because Rabindranath is describing something I have noticed, and I'm pretty sure we all have, that a dog is lean to adore us somehow. And we, humanity, must appear like gods to this creatures. 'God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.' Genesis 1: 27