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The Crescent Moon (LibriVox reading)

Rabindranath Tagore

A volunteer audio reading of Tagore's lyrical poetry collection about mother-child love, originally written in Bengali and translated by Tagore himself.

Tagore wrote and translated these poems himself; this audio brings his words to a modern audience.

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Rabindranath Tagore, The Crescent Moon. LibriVox volunteer reading by Anusha Iyer, not the author's own voice.

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What it is

This is a LibriVox volunteer audio recording of The Crescent Moon, a collection of lyrical poems and prose-poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore wrote the poems originally in Bengali and translated them into English himself. The reading was made by a volunteer, Anusha Iyer, and is not Tagore's own voice.

Why it matters

The poems explore the bond between mothers and children as a child grows, filled with imagery from nature. The collection shows Tagore's gift for tender, simple language and helped build his international reputation after the success of his book Gitanjali.

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  • Why might Tagore have translated his own poems instead of leaving that to someone else?
  • What does the theme of childhood and nature tell you about Tagore's values?
  • How might hearing a volunteer reading differ from reading the poems silently yourself?

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