This seemingly simple but actually profound philosophical quote points out the connection between loss and gain, and builds a bridge that turns disappointment into hope and pain into happiness. Let us understand that acquisition is a kind of happiness. Don't just be sentimental about what you have lost and ignore the other scenery around you. Don't lose the big because of the small.
If you lower your head and immerse yourself in the memory and sadness of the lost (people, things, things), you will miss more scenery, things, or people around you. Everything in the world is predestined and cannot be forced.
Tagore uses symbolic metaphors in this sentence to symbolize the sun and stars as various opportunities or imaginable things in life.
"If you cry because you have lost the sun, then you will also lose the stars." This sentence comes from the sixth poem in Rabindranath Tagore's "Birds". The original text of the poem is: If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Extended information
Creative background
"The Collection of Birds" was created in 1913, and the first edition was completed in 1916. Part of "The Collection of Birds" was translated by the poet from his collection of Bengali aphorisms "The Collection of Broken Jade" (1899), and the other part was the poet's impromptu English poems when he visited Japan in 1916.
The poet has been staying in Japan for more than three months, and ladies are constantly asking him to inscribe fans or commemorative books. The poet once praised the simplicity of Japanese haiku, and his "Asuka Collection" was obviously influenced by this poetic style.
Influence of the work
Tagore's "The Birds" had a great influence on the modern Chinese poetry world. After the publication of "The Birds" translated by Zheng Zhenduo, the poetry of casual poems appeared in the poetry world. Very popular. The female poet Xie Bingxin once said in the preface to her collection of poems "Stars" that her poems were influenced by Rabindranath Tagore.
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