The summary & analysis of the poem Upagupta presents the scene of the poem in each line along with majoe summary and the brief conclusion of the poem.
Upagupta [Poem] Summary & Analysis
Introduction of Upagupta Main Summary of Upagupta The Poem “Upagupta” establishes the impermanence of sensual pleasures, the root cause of sorrow being an attachment to material pleasures etc. and many such philosophical and spiritual truths. Rabindranath Tagore , the writer of the poem, achieves this through the incidents in the life of a dancing girl and her meeting with an ascetic called Upagupta. The poem presents two moments in the life of a dancing girl. The dancing girl comes to Upagupta, the disciple of Buddha on a dark night and invites him to her house. Upagupta rejects her invitation saying, “ when the time is ripe, I will come to you”. She is described as proud of her youth and beauty(“drunk with the wine of her youth”). She meets the ascetic again after a long time when she is stricken with black pestilence and is thrown out of the city. The ascetic comes to her and consoles her. He says that it is the right time to visit her. The two moments shown in the life of the girl are …