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Essay On Kedarnath Singh

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Kedarnath Singh
-a noted Hindi poet of the modern trend
Abstract:
Kedarnath Singh is one of the most prominent modern poets writing Hindi. He is also known for his critic writing and essays on daily life. From many years Kedarnath Singh has conveyed many complex themes on society in very simple everyday words. He is famous for the lyrical quality of his writing and the perfect tune with sensitive treatment of human-nature relationship. In this paper we will be focusing on the major works and contributions towards Hindi literature of
Kedarnath Singh in recent years. This paper is been divided into different parts focusing on
Kedarnath’s poems, essays and social work. Brief history on Kedarnath is also been mentioned.
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Here some of the main qualities in his poems are discussed.
Relationship between Human and Nature:
He is well known for his folkloric based touch and images in his poems like in his very famous poem collection “Yahan se dekho“ he has used a bojpuri touch to depict a classic scene of everyday life. He has shown vivid moods and different scene. Instead of describing each and every mood he let the reader decide about the poems mood. In the “Yahan se dekho”- a poemcollection published by Kedarnath in year of 1999, he has used pictures to embody the relationship of nature and the livings. He has written these poems with such elegance and compactness that it makes any reader visualize the actual image. Without over-explaining the message, he used very simple everyday words. His idea on “from perception towards conception” is been displayed in several poems of this collection like Banaras, where he describe the scene of a Banaras city in spring season; “Pani mai ghire hue log” talks about the local people whose everyday life is around the river water; “Basant” where he talks about

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