The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems of song 95 which unifies songs 89, 90 of Naivedya. The translations were undertaken prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English Gitanjali has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as "prayer offering of song". A salute to the writer.