Knockings at My Heart is a first ever collection of Rabindranath Tagore?s unpublished short poems ? the autograph poems he started writing for the first time during his visit to China and Japan between 1916 and 1929. A Nobel laureate , Tagore was often requested by his admirers to write these short poems while signing autographs . Influenced by the precision, depth, power and intensity of Japanese haiku poetry, Tagore?s short poems are a tour de force of his lyrical simplicity.