Friday, April 29, 2011

Jibananda Das

    Jibananda Das is the most popular Bengali poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist poetry to Bengali literature,at a period when it was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's romantic poetry.Indeed Jibananda Das's poetry is sometimes an outcome of very  profound feeling that is painted with imagery of a type and reality understable .He broke the traditional circular structure of poetry and the pattern of logical sequence of words ,lines ,and stanzas.On october 14,1954,he was unmindfully crossing a road near Calcutta'sDeshapriya park when he was hit by a tram.He died in hospital on october 22,1954,after eight days struggle with death ,close to midnight.  

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