Gitanjali (Bangla Gitanjoli) is a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated as it received nobel prize for literature Gitanjali is also the title of an earlier Bengali volume (1910) of mostly devotional songs The word gitanjoli is a composed from 'git', song, and 'anjoli', offering, and thus means - 'An offering of songs' but the word for offering, anjoli, has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as 'prayer offering of song'