Maybe you grew up hearing Tagore's name everywhere but never actually read him. School made him homework, and homework ruined him. That is more common than you think.
Here is the fix: forget everything school taught you about him. Approach rabindranath kobita like a stranger, not a syllabus. No exams, no model answers, just you and the page.
Start with Gitanjali, but not the whole thing. Read ten poems. If three of them move you, keep going. If none do, try his songs or his short stories first, then come back. No shame in a side entrance.
Read the Bangla if you can manage even slowly. Tagore in translation is like hearing about a meal instead of eating it. The English versions are dignified and a little flat. The Bangla sings.
One practical tip: read one poem out loud before deciding you do not like it. His lines were written with music in them. Silent reading misses half the craft.
Give it a month of casual reading. Not a crash course, a habit. Most people who stick with it for a month end up lifelong readers. The ones who quit usually quit in week one, which tells you something.
Good news for beginners: Tagore died in 1941, so his full texts are public domain. You can read complete poems freely and legally at kobitaghar.com, with short explainers that do not talk down to you.