Poetry
কয়েকটি কবিতা
Not translated into English
Samar Sen · 1937
Synopsis
Poems of the big city, written between the ages of eighteen and twenty: the life of the Calcutta middle class, its disenchantments, its decadence, seen through an urban, disillusioned eye. Love is spoken of here without the images inherited from Tagore, with a dryness close to prose and a mocking spirit that Bengali poetry had scarcely known, and the poet's experience takes the place of any prologue.
Context
The collection appeared in 1937, when its author was twenty. Buddhadeva Bose, who published his first poems in his magazine Kavita, noted that this young poet had never come under Tagore's influence, and Tagore himself said he liked his verses. The author wrote poetry for only a dozen years or so, in five slim volumes, and took leave of it in 1946 in a birthday poem in which he observed that romantic malaise no longer turned into verse.
Who it is for
A slim volume of short poems, with neither consolation nor landscape. No French translation.
Prizes and reception
The first of the five collections that critics regard as a turning point in Bengali poetry; extracts from it appeared in school textbooks.
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