The title itself probably refers to the waxing moon, where the waxing crescent moon is the first stage on the moon’s progression to fullness. The child’s perspective is delightfully captured in his volume The Crescent Moon (1913). Rhymes, like children, are born naturally of the human mind. The reason that children remain so universally pure and clean is that they are Nature’s creations adults, in contrast, are to a great extent the product of their own doings. Eternal and unchanging, the child is born every day among us in human form, yet he remains just as fresh, sweet, and innocent as on the first day. Adults have been deeply influenced by time, place, and culture, but the child has remained the same for the last hundred thousand years. If one thinks about it, one realizes that there is nothing as old as a child. Tagore’s attitude to childhood is certainly similar to the adulation of the child begun as a cultural movement by the British Romantic poets, as captured in such quotes as Wordsworth’s famous: “The child is father of the man” from “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold.” Tagore praises both the purity of the child as well as the Platonic essence of childhood in his writing on nursery rhymes:
As Suchismita Sen points out in “Tagore’s Lokashahitya: The Oral Tradition in Bengali Children’s Rhymes”: “Tagore’s interest in ‘naïve and childish’ poems stems from his empathy with the English Romantics’” (Sen). Rabindranath Tagore was influenced by the British Romantic poets as well as by the sights, sounds and tradition of his own Bengali culture. Tagore’s recourse to childhood freedom arguably translated in his poetry to his radical experiment with language, which unfortunately cannot be reproduced entirely in translation.
In a sense, through his exploration of the unconscious components of the mind of the child, Tagore in essence becomes father to himself: his language eludes the Order typically imposed on linguistic expression in the Oedipal stage of development. Tagore praises both the purity of the child as well as the Platonic essence of childhood in his writing on nursery rhymes. Tagore’s attitude to childhood is certainly similar to the adulation of the child begun as a cultural movement by the British Romantic poets.
McQuail, Tennessee Technological University, USA
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The observation of the crescent moon is ensured by these specialized commissions, which are distributed throughout the national territory and members of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR).īenayad noted that the specialized committees in Morocco proceed to the observation of the lunar crescents of the different months of the Islamic calender, throughout the year, and not only with the advent of the month of Ramadan.įor his part, the Dean of the Faculty of Science in Tetouan, Abdellatif Mokrim, told MAP that this conference is part of a series of meetings scheduled by the university on the occasion of the holy month, with a focus on relevant scientific topics.Josephine A. Morocco is the best Arab-Muslim country in terms of crescent moon observation, said astronomy researcher, said Benayad, according to Moroccan News Agency MAP.īenayad, who led a conference at the Faculty of Science in Tetouan, described as "correct" the method advocated by the Kingdom in confirming the crescent moon's visibility, adding that it is based on a set of specific criteria applied in 250 specialized committees.
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