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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:34 am Post subject: as ever known to me |
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When I was born and saw the light
I was no stranger in this world
Something inscrutable, shapeless, and without words
Appeared in the form of my mother
So when I die, the same unknown will appear again
As ever known to me ... |
The quotation is a poem by Tagore.
Could you tell me what the underlined part mean?
If possible, can you paraphrase it?
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askeladd
Joined: 05 Jan 2010
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Location: Chicago area, USA
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I'm not very good at poetry  but I'll give it a try.
As ever known to me ...
The speaker is saying that the unknown of the previous line is something that will manifest itself as something that he already knows or is familiar with.
My paraphrase:
The author is drawing a parallel between being born to this life, and being born to the afterlife (i.e., dying). Just as when we are born we are not strangers, but are welcomed by someone who loves us, so too will we enter the afterlife - even though the afterlife is yet unknown to us, somehow we will recognize the familiar there.
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