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National Poetry Month: Jibanananda Das
Article via Khurpi.com
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)