"Worship" is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. In which he worships his own wife after her death. He doesn't state that directly in the poem, but through the techniques used by him, these add a lot to our under standing of the poem, through the pace, tone and language used we get to know that it is about someone who the poet loves a lot and realizes after her death. This essay investigates into the pace, tone and language of the poem and tells us how these help in our understanding of the poem.

Pace is one of the factors which help the reader to figure out the meaning of the poem to some extent. In the poem "Worship", the poet deliberately makes the pace of the poem slow so that the reader feels the intensity of emotion tried to be portrayed. Generally, slow is associated with...