In "The Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" there is a line, "The farthest distance in the world is not between life and death, but when I stand in front of you, but you don't know that I love you." It says it's from "Asky Birds". But I couldn't find it in "Asky Birds".

After reading the information, there are many opinions.

If you ask netizens who wrote this poem, almost everyone will agree: the author is Rabindranath Tagore.

But when I searched Tagore’s poetry collection, I couldn’t find this poem.

It is said that millions of netizens are pursuing this poem. When I opened the search website GOOGLE and entered the query "the furthest distance in the world", I was surprised: nearly 200,000 search results appeared, while for "Tagore" there were only 24,900 search results. According to incomplete statistics, the page views related to "The Farthest Distance in the World" have exceeded 10 million. I randomly clicked on the web page and found that the poem and the sentences in the poem were quoted in various ways. Some made the poem on their personal homepage, some set it with music, some lined it with exquisite stickers, and some included it. The poem is designed to look like my signature when posting on BBS. Some web pages also launched a passing game, saying that if you send this poem to more than 20 netizens, your wishes will come true and you will become a couple with the person you love... This sad poem about secret love has moved more than a million readers.

Now, this poem also has commercial value. Record companies, advertising companies, and TV programs have begun to quote it, and related TV series have also begun filming. When the main creators of the TV series "Homecoming" talked about the original intention of creating this TV series, it was for the poem "The Farthest Distance in the World".

Author Debate

Most of the signatures quoted online are attributed to Rabindranath Tagore, but some people also used Gogol's novels to satirize it. It is said that a Russian pseudo-poet Vosilov recited this poem to everyone as his own creation. When the ladies were moved to tears and were about to worship him, a defender of truth came to the podium and said: "Please allow me to I apologize to dear Vsilov, I was wrong to say that he plagiarized. Yesterday I looked through Rabindranath Tagore's poetry collection and found that "The Farthest Distance in the World" is still there..." It can be seen that there is a firm force defending the Internet. Tagore's creative rights to the poem.

Many people insist on Tagore's ownership of the poem, based on the quoted poem in the 14th issue of "Reader" magazine in 2003, signed by Tagore, and excerpted from the 5th issue of "Women's Literature" (now renamed) of the same year. "Women's Digest"). But according to an editor at Women's Digest, the poem was obtained online.

Some scholars who study Indian literature and Tagore said they have never seen this poem.

Hong Kong female writer Zhang Xiaoxian "accepted" the original rights

Soon, the name of another celebrity appeared.

On a web page, this poem is signed by Zhang Xiaoxian, a well-known female writer in Hong Kong. The author found clues in the online readers' comments attached to her novel "Single Bed in the Purse". The original text is: "'The farthest distance in the world is not the distance between life and death, nor the distance between us, but the fact that I am standing in front of you, but you don’t know that I love you.' After reading this passage, I I fell in love with Zhang Xiaoxian’s novels.”

In the 2000 edition of "Single Bed in the Purse", Zhang Xiaoxian specifically clarified this public case in the literary world. The preface states that the novel was completed in May 1997 and tells the story of a secret love. The passage on the cover is borrowed from the mouth of the protagonist Su Ying.

Zhang Xiaoxian said in the preface: Others thought that I copied Tagore, but only I and my publisher knew that I did not copy. This is really the farthest distance in the world.

Netizens collectively created

On a website in Taiwan, you can find this passage: "Collection of Tagore's Poems", "Drifting Bird Collection", "New Moon Collection", "Fruit Gathering Collection", "Ode Collection", "Gardener Collection" There is no poem "The Farthest Distance in the World" in Ji Ji, Ai Yi Ji and Hua Du Ji. Among them, there are 326 poems in The Floating Bird Collection, with the average number of words per poem being only one or two lines; the maximum number is four lines. Nowadays, there are widespread rumors on the Internet that the first paragraph and other short paragraphs of "The Farthest Distance in the World" are from "The Collected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" and "The Collection of Floating Birds". Although it is impossible to find out the real author one by one, but in Yangming Shennongpo Medical College (bbs. ym. edu. tw) There are clues that can be found in the ninth-level medical department, and it can be presumed that it is a collective creation.

It is said that this poem was first collectively created by some classmates at Yangming Shennongpo Medical College in a BBS, and was eventually circulated on the Internet. Although this is a pseudo-poem based on Rabindranath Tagore, a scholar on the Internet commented that this poem would not be inferior to any lyric poetry collection. This poem peels away the despair of men and women in secret love, down to the most untouchable and secret ends. The kind of happiness that can be reached as soon as you reach out, you will miss it forever because you don't reach out.