Reinterpreting the Mystical Essence in the Poetry of William Blake and Rabindranath Tagore

Humans have longed for an understanding which defines their presence within universally interwoven energies. Man has aimed to understand the mystic expressions of poets who have tried to define an elevated spiritual juncture within mystical paradigms eloquently in their poetry. This mystical essence manifests itself within succinct expressions in the poetry of both Blake and Tagore who have been established as mystic poets and seekers of this universal truth themselves. Their poetic expressions, while being mystical, try to define the amalgam of consciousness with the all-pervasive divine consciousness and are projections of the lives within which these mystic poets exist and reverberate the realities that surround them. The mystic expressions in their poetry are fraught with worldly experience while embracing their existential quest and transcending it without cleaving or dissociating from it. This mysticism is truly spiritual in its essence, yet it attempts to define human existence within the worldly chaos. Both mysticism and existentialism concatenate at the juncture where in the mystic expressions in the poetry of Blake and Tagore provide answers to the existential ontological quest into self and an understanding of consciousness within an existential awareness. This paper aims to reinterpret the manifestation of what is mystic in the poetry of both Blake and Tagore within the existential paradigms.