History of Natore Banalata Sen
Banalata Sen is the name of a woman whom the poem describes as being from the town of Natore, a town in Bangladesh. In the first stanza the traveller describes seeing her after having wandered upon the earth over thousands of years. Banalata Sen - An Eternal Love Story Over the years, Bengal has produced a great number of poets. Their verses have touched thousands of people across the world—but never, perhaps, was there a poet in Bengal who described nature as well as Jibanananda Das. He not only had the power to transport one beyond the everyday bounds of sense and reason through his lines, but also, achieved it by paying tribute to mundane everyday objects of nature. Especially the ordinary objects that we see around us. Prominent writer Buddhadeva Bose in his book An Acre of Green Grass wrote, “Jibanananda is a nature-worshipper, but by no means a pantheist; he is rather a pagan who loves the things of nature sensuously, not as tokens or symbols, nor as patterns of perfection, but ...
