Question

A character created by this author sings an autumn song and complains to a professor about miners digging in the dark. In a play by this author, a boy who talks to a gaffer about the Isle of Parrots doesn’t want to be shut up with books and asks a dairyman to teach him to sell curds. The speaker of a poem by this author describes a place “[w]here the world has not been (10[1])broken up into (10[1])fragments” and “the clear stream of reason has not (10[1])lost its way.” This author wrote about Nandini in Red Oleanders and about the fantasies (-5[1])of the sick Amal in the play The Post Office. The speaker of a poem by this author compares himself to “This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again” and declares “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.” (-5[1])For 10 points, name this Bengali author of Gitanjali. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Rabindranath Tagore
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Austin GuoPrinceton APenn A15010
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