বৈষ্ণব পদাবলী ও রবীন্দ্র কবিতায় শৈশব ভাবনা/ Childhood thoughts in Vaishnava Padabali and Rabindra poems

Abstract

In this article we are trying to discuss about the childhood images in the ‘Vaishnab padabali’ and poems of Rabindranath Tagore. We somehow find that, Rabindranath in his poems were deeply influenced by the padabali specially when it comes to childhood images. Though these two genres of literature were emerged in different time. In various padabalis we find the images of krishna as ‘gopal’. Medieval literature is all about the divine entity and extolling the glories of omnipresent. In between we find the rhythm of flesh and blood silently. The childhood images in padabali are monocentric. ‘gopal’ is the only child there. Rabindranath in his poems described the images of childhood in bigger spectrum. These two images of childhood need a proper attention to understand the evaluation of child and childhood images.