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Manasi (Bengali: মানসী; English: "Mental Images" or "The Mind's Creation") is a 1890 Bengali poetry book written by Rabindranath Tagore. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It comes under the "Manasi-Sonar Tari Group" of Tagore's poetry writings.
The poets who built the bridge between the Middle and Modern Ages is the poet of the Ages:Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–1859), he is also regarded as the Father of the Modern Bengali Language. Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873) broke the medieval paradigm and Bengali poetry entered free verse - he is especially popular for his Bengali sonnets.
Nur Qutb Alam wrote poetry in Middle Bengali using the Persian alphabet. [3] Chandidas: c. 14th century Chandidas was the first humanist in Bengali poetry. He asserted "Shobar upor manush shotto tahar upore nai" ("Above all is humanity, none else"). [4] Krittibas Ojha: c. 1381-1461 CE He translated Indian epic the Valmiki Ramayana into Bengali.
Examples of shayari are ghazal, sher, nazm, marsiya, qita and many more. [6] Traditionally, that this form of poetry is often read to an audience in a special setting called mehfil . Although there are many professional shayars , who write shayari [ 7 ] for their livelihood, it is an immensely popular form of poetry for younger generation.
Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, pronounced [kad͡ʒi ˈnod͡ʒɾul islam] ⓘ; 24 May 1899 [b] – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, short story writer, journalist, lyricist and musician. [8] He is the national poet of Bangladesh.
The following year, Jibanananda provided his own translations of several of his poems for an English anthology to be published under the title Modern Bengali Poems. Oddly enough, the editor Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya considered these translations to be sub-standard, and instead commissioned Martin Kirkman to translate four of Jibanananda's poems ...
Rāmprasād Sen (c. 1723/1718 – c. 1775) was a Hindu Shakta poet and saint of 18th-century Bengal. [3] [4] His bhakti poems, known as Ramprasadi, are still popular in Bengal—they are usually addressed to the Hindu goddess Kali and written in Bengali. [5]
Banalata Sen (Bengali: বনলতা সেন) is a poetry volume containing 31 poems by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das (1899–1954). [1] The volume reflects the contextual struggles experienced by the poet in terms of love (his partner, admiration of nature), liberty (World War I, patriotism in the form of admiring the land) and loss (death of loved ones and sense of direction after ...