The evolution theory in the poems of Jibanananda Das/ জীবনানন্দ দাশের কাব্যে বিবর্তনবাদ

Abstract

Jibanananda Das was a modern poet who followed western esthetics deeply. He used evolution theory of Darwin in many of his poems. But any critic doesn’t explain him according to evolution theory. I have found him as an evolutionist poet in this article. My research is qualitative research and all information are collected by secondary sources. In his poems Jibanananda Das supported that mankind is the result of evolution. At first, life being produced in water of sea as bacteria then they increased themselves as amoeba. Poet feels that he was lived in the water of sea that time. In course of time amoeba toke visible body. Poet and his darling were stayed as two pearls in the belly of mother oyster. He saw the horse of Neolithic age in field of present earth. Thus he applied the evolution theory in his poems. It makes a new area in history of Bangla literature.