twentieth century - Jibanananda Das was born in Borishal in
Bangladesh. Later he came to Calcutta for education. He was the
student of Presidency College. After M.A. in English, he took the
profession of professor and taught in various colleges.
He always loved to write poems in Bengali. But never tried to imitate
Rabindranath. His Bangla poems are the milestone of modern Bangla
poetry.
His poems are "Chitraroopmoy" (images through words) as Rabindranath
said. Alongwith Bengal, his collection of poems also published in
Bangladesh.
Loneliness, sadness, helplessness of modern age, deep love for the soil
and nature, feelings of history, geography - all the modern aspects of
human tenderness are inside his poems, similar to the contents and
forms
of contemporary poets W B Yeats and Erich Maria Rilke. --
A. B.
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