The Hero is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

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Summary

The Hero depicts the journey of a mother and her son. They are travelling through a strange and a very dangerous country to reach Joradighi. The son is riding a red horse and the mother is in palanquin. On the way when it gets dark suddenly they are attacked by robbers. The mother gets scared and asks her son to stay away. But the boy gallops his horse, fights a fearful battle.

His mother remains in the palanquin scared to look outside thinking that her son would have been dead. Some of the robbers are killed in the fight, the rest flee. The boy then returns to her mother. The mother is overjoyed to see her son alive. She hugs him.
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Inner Meaning

It’s the dream of every boy to be a hero in the eyes of the world, especially his mother. He doesn’t want the world to think that he is weak or delicate. He wants the world to acknowledge his bravery and valour.He has a faithful and sincere love to his mother.he saves his mother at the cost of his life.