Open AccessThe “Healing Touch” of Nature: Corresponding Elements in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Jibanananda Das
Author(s) -
Firoze Basu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the creative launcher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-6580
DOI - 10.53032/tcl.2021.6.1.21
Subject(s) - bengali , poetry , psyche , solitude , consciousness , literature , bengal , philosophy , aesthetics , art , psychology , history , linguistics , epistemology , archaeology , bay
This paper endeavours to find resonances between Wordsworth's treatment and responses to Nature and Jibanananda's fascination with rural Bengal. A lecturer in English, he tried to bring the West to the Bengali psyche and consciousness utilizing the unique strategy of de-familiarizing the Bengali landscape. In effecting this achievement Jibanananda's familiarity with English poetry is of paramount importance. He has analogical and genealogical similarities with Keats and Wordsworth's particularly Wordsworth, in the celebrations of solitude, of nature.