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Tagore's Gitanjali opens with which central metaphor for the human-divine relation?
AA 'frail vessel' the divine empties and refills
BA blazing forge
CA crowded marketplace
DA locked garden
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. A 'frail vessel' the divine empties and refills
1. The opening poem establishes the vessel as figure for human limitation.
2. The divine empties and refills it with 'fresh life.'
3. The image governs the collection's tension between finitude and grace.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (1912 English edition) — "the metaphor of a "frail vessel" that the divine repeatedly empties and refills with "fresh life""_
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