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Intellectual Loneliness

Intellectual loneliness is a term that has got a few people to its task. It can be defined as any loneliness of thought or result of actions pertaining to a person's intellectual prowess. The person can be mired in doubts about his success or profundity of them and tend to make his actions like yielding to his muse, mellow. Though this can be seen in his literary works, there can be no great deviation from their quality in the foreground. A large part of this could be seen in the works of the famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore. He was known for his keen intellect and bogged down by this loneliness but never stopped yielding to his muse. He even likened his muse to a divine inspiration. His spiritual thoughts aside, the intellectual loneliness was found in his stand on various issues relating to our country in his time. Among many, the few issues were nationalism that was taking root in India. Even his alienation from the extremist viewpoint during the freedom struggle was oppose...