National Poetry Month: Jibanananda Das

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He is a poet of nature. Bengal’s beauty with its lovely flora and fauna finds apt description in his poetry. He had a unique lyricism, and was a romantic as well as a classicist. One of his most famous poems is Banalata Sen dedicated to his muse, the poem abounds with the distinct imagery of nature:

Jibanananda Das –Banalata Sen

“Hajar bochor dhorey ami poth hantitechi prithibir pothey,

Shinghol- shomudro theke nisheether ondhokarey moloy- shagorey

Onek ghurechi ami; Bimbishar- Ashokar dhushor jogotey

Shekhane chilam ami; aro dur ondhokar bidorbho nogore;”

(It has been a thousand years since I started trekking the earth

A huge travel in night’s darkness from the Ceylonese waters

To the Malayan sea

I have been there too; the fading world of Vimbisara and Ashoka

Even further- the forgotten city of Vidarva)