Instead of the freedom to be happy.

  • mah [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    it’s so beautiful, thank you for sharing it. heart-sickle

    but i don’t see it related to the post at all… OP’s post feels like serfdom apology? it’s super weird honestly. It’s not freedom if it’s not a choice.

    My reading of Tagore’s poem is like: different choices and conditions develop two different worldviews, two solitudes that they could not “explain to each other”. But they still loved each other. And - in my reading - the bird in the cage in the end doesn’t have “the strength to soar”. I feel there is some social commentary behind, probably about colonialism and some “comfort”. But I really don’t know.

    Thank you again for sharing. Long ago I read Charulata, and it was so powerful and beautiful. I should definitely read more by Tagore.

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      Hmm maybe, I see your point. It’s very open to interpretation: political , spiritual, personal…I originally was thinking about it in terms of a breakup and some of the things that were said 😅