In Gitanjali song 30 Tagore writes: "He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter." What does "swagger" add that "walk" would not?

Gitanjali song 5 opens: "I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side." Which near-synonym in that same spot would make the moment sound like something owed to the speaker?

Gitanjali song 9 begins: "O Fool, try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders! O beggar, to come beg at thy own door!" What is the speaker's attitude toward himself here?

Gitanjali song 40 says: "The rain has held back for days and days, my God, in my arid heart." What does "arid" add that "empty" would not?

Gitanjali song 89 states: "No more noisy, loud words from me... Henceforth I deal in whispers." What does the formal word "Henceforth" signal about the speaker?

Gitanjali song 36 prays: "strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart." What does the formal word "penury" give the line that "being poor" would not?

Gitanjali song 28 ends: "My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted." What is the speaker's attitude?

Gitanjali song 60 says: "Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle." What does "ballads" add that "noises" would not?

Gitanjali song 22 says: "In the deep shadows of the rainy July, with secret steps, thou walkest, silent as night, eluding all watchers." What does "eluding" add that "passing" would not?

In Gitanjali song 33 the meek guests "break into my sacred shrine, strong and turbulent, and snatch with unholy greed the offerings from God's altar." What is the speaker's attitude toward them?

In Gitanjali song 50 the beggar says: "Ah, what a kingly jest was it to open thy palm to a beggar to beg!" What does "jest" add that "act" would not?

Gitanjali song 93 begins: "I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers! I bow to you all and take my departure. Here I give back the keys of my door." What is the speaker's attitude to leaving?

Gitanjali song 95 ends: "in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well." What is the speaker's attitude toward death?

Gitanjali song 86 opens: "Death, thy servant, is at my door. He has crossed the unknown sea and brought thy call to my home." What does calling Death a "servant" add that "power" would not?

Gitanjali song 39 prays: "When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king." What does "beggarly" add that "poor" would not?

Gitanjali song 47 says: "I wish not to be called from my sleep by the clamorous choir of birds, by the riot of wind at the festival of morning light." What does "riot" add that "movement" would not?

Gitanjali song 55 begins: "Languor is upon your heart and the slumber is still on your eyes." Which near-synonym in place of "languor" would suggest tiredness earned by hard work?

Gitanjali song 11 commands: "Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?" What is the speaker's attitude to that worship?

Gitanjali song 11 asks: "What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained? Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow." What does "sweat" add that "work" would not?

Gitanjali song 21 says: "The spring has done its flowering and taken leave. And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger." What does "futile" add that "old" would not?

Gitanjali song 41 says: "But time glides on and still no sound of the wheels of thy chariot." What does "glides" add that "goes" would not?

Gitanjali song 49 says: "Masters are many in your hall, and songs are sung there at all hours. But the simple carol of this novice struck at your love." What does "novice" add that "singer" would not?

In Gitanjali song 51 the villagers hear knocks and "we said it was nothing but the wind." Later: "We said in a drowsy murmur, 'No, it must be the rumbling of clouds!'" What attitude do they show?

Gitanjali song 52 ends: "From now I leave off all petty decorations... Thou hast given me thy sword for adornment. No more doll's decorations for me!" What is the speaker's attitude to her old ornaments?

Gitanjali song 53 says: "thy sword, O lord of thunder, is wrought with uttermost beauty, terrible to behold or think of." What does "terrible" add to a line about beauty?

Gitanjali song 100 says: "The days are long passed when my sport was to be tossed on waves. And now I am eager to die into the deathless." What is the speaker's attitude toward the end of his life?

Gitanjali song 82 says: "time goes by while I give it to every querulous man who claims it." Which near-synonym in place of "querulous" would remove the note of complaint?

Gitanjali song 14 says: "ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through." Which near-synonym in place of "mercy" would remove the note of kindness?

Gitanjali song 15 says: "In thy world I have no work to do; my useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose." What is the speaker's attitude toward his own singing?

Gitanjali song 3 begins: "I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement." What is the speaker's attitude to the master's music?

Gitanjali song 27 says: "Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!" What does "Kindle" add that "find" would not?

Gitanjali song 98 begins: "I will deck thee with trophies, garlands of my defeat. It is never in my power to escape unconquered." What does calling his defeat "trophies" show about the speaker?

Gitanjali song 102 says: "They come and ask me, 'Tell me all your meanings.' I know not how to answer them... They smile and go away in utter scorn. And you sit there smiling." What is his attitude to their scorn?

Gitanjali song 35 asks for a land "Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit." What does "dead" add that "old" would not?

Gitanjali song 35 ends: "Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake." An earlier line asks for a place "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high". What is the speaker's attitude toward his country?

Gitanjali song 62 says: "When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands I know why there is honey in the cup of the flowers." How does "greedy" sound in this line spoken to a child?

Gitanjali song 48 says: "Mockery and reproach pricked me to rise, but found no response in me. I gave myself up for lost in the depth of a glad humiliation." What does pairing "glad" with "humiliation" do?

Gitanjali song 45 repeats: "Have you not heard his silent steps? He comes, comes, ever comes." The repetition of "comes" makes the speaker sound certain of the arrival.

Gitanjali song 97 says: "When my play was with thee I never questioned who thou wert. I knew nor shyness nor fear, my life was boisterous." The word "boisterous" describes a loud and lively life.

Gitanjali song 10 repeats: "Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost." That repeated phrase praises the high rank of the people God stands among.