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Jibanananda Das
Great modern bangali poet.
Jibanananda Das was born in 17 February 1899 in a small town of Barisal, located in the southern region of Bangladesh. His ancestors came from the Bikrampur region of Dhaka district, from a now-extinct village called Gaupara on the banks of the river Padma. He is probably 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. Tagore wrote on Jibanananda Das poem: Jibanananda Das' vivid, colourful poem has given me great pleasure. Jhôra Palok , Dhushor Pandulipi (Grey Manuscript), Bônolôta Sen, Môhaprithibi (Great Universe), Shaat-ti Tarar Timir (Darkness of Seven Stars), Shreshtho Kobita, (Best Poems), Rupôshi Bangla are his well known poetry books. On October 14, 1954, he was unmindfully crossing a road near Calcutta's Deshapriya Park when he was hit by a tram. The injury was too fatal to redress. Jibanananda died in hospital on October 22, 1954 after eight days of struggle with death, close to midnight. Notwithstanding indigenous anchorage and very own world-view, stylistics and diction, Jibanananda Das will appeal to poetry lovers and modern men of intellect and emotion all around the world of today and of tomorrow.
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