শিশুমনের আয়নায় মানবতা : নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তীর কিশোর-কবিতায় প্রকৃতি, স্মৃতি ও সময়চেতনা / HUMANITY REFLECTED IN THE CHILD’S MIND : NATURE, MEMORY, AND THE SENSE OF TIME IN NIRENDRANATH CHAKRABORTY’S JUVENILE POETRY

Abstract

Nirendranath Chakraborty’s poetry for adolescents is not a mere re-narration of the simple experiences of childhood; rather, it transforms the deeper realities of human lifetime, history and the contemporary moment, social crises, memory, morality, and human consciousness - into an integrated artistic vision. In his poems, nature is not only a visible backdrop; it becomes a silent metaphor of memory, time, childhood, and self-identity, where the seeds of human awareness are sown within the very texture of juvenile experience.

            An analysis of poems such as Khukur Janya (For Khuku), Nijer Bari (One’s Own Home), Cholonto Trener Theke (From a Moving Train), Brishtir Por (After the Rain), and Sahodara (Siblings) reveals how values like restraint, self-liberation, responsibility, familial empathy, solitude, and human suffering are artistically embedded within the realm of the child’s mind. Focusing on close readings of selected adolescent poems, this research paper seeks to explore Chakraborty’s poetic vision of childhood, nature, memory, temporal consciousness, and humanistic ethics.