The Plastic Kavi . . .

Abstract

Abstract This chapter reinvests the arguments in our understanding of plastic Tagore on different lines to make a resounding case for what we now accept as ‘the’ plastic kavi. In trying to do that, it commits to figure a few plastic moments in Tagore’s negotiations with nature. Plastic Tagore betrays an anxiety of a changing nature, a negative surplus that made him commit to a biocentric pedagogy or rural reconstruction within a nature–culture sambandha or a life amidst the nourishing and recuperative shelter of forests, trees, and plants—an inclusive and intensive green consciousness. He builds plastic lines that formulate new ideas of nature within the background of an anthropocenic unconscious and climaticenic becoming. The chapter in the end establishes the problematic of the plastic kavi and concludes that Tagore has never been outside the profound impacts of plasticity.