Al Mahmud's Poetry in Portraying Bengal's Nature/ বাংলার প্রকৃতি রূপায়ণে আল মাহমুদের কবিতা

Abstract

The flow of portraying Nature with delight and fascination has been running for long days in Bengali poetry. Al Mahmud, one of the greatest poets of Bangladesdh, portrayed the real and independent picture of Nature. He portrayed the aesthetic, philosophical, social and political identities, firstly, in the total perspectives of Nature and secondly, in the imageries of different components of Nature—rivers, rain and soil. The sectors he was devoted to are the novel world created in the relentless flow of the Padma, the Meghna and the Jamuna and the ancient destroying Nature of Bengal. The Nature portrayed in Jibanananda's and Jasimuddin's poetry is quite different from that of Al Mahmud. The poet's adolescence was passed during the British imperialistic rule, riot, violence, the Second World War, Bengal Division, and Famine. He did not behold the Bangladesh of Jibananda and Jasimuddin. That is why, he cannot call his country the ‘golden Bangladesh because he saw the Bangladesh breaking the banks of rivers. The distinct shape of Al Mahmud's philosophy of Nature in depicting the Bengal replete with breakage has been revealed in this essay.