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Gitanjali is one of Rabindranath Tagore’s most popular works. The book is a collection of poems written by the legendary poet. Summary of the Book Gitanjali is a collection of poems that portray the union of lovers. The songs are about nature and spiritualism, and were originally written in Bengali. They were later translated to English by Tagore himself. Each poem give readers an essence of the various elements of Mother Nature and makes one feel connected to nature while reading them. The word ‘Gitanjali’ is derived from ‘gita’ meaning song and ‘anjali’ meaning offering. Therefore, the title really means ‘An offering of songs’. The translated poems from the collection were received well in England and was even responsible for making Rabindranath Tagore the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. About Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore was a man who was a master in several fields. He revived Bengali literature and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1913. He introduced new prose and verse forms, and the use of colloquial language in Bengali literature.