Taal Gachh, The Palm Tree, Tagore's Poem

Taal Gaachh, this is the first Rabindranath Tagore’s poem that I had learned by heart as a child. When I heard the poem for the first time, I was struck by the imagination that: even trees have feelings! The palm tree, which is considered as the tallest tree wants to fly higher like the clouds. The tree imagines its big round leaves to be its wings. In the end however it is content to be with