Poem Analysis: Bengal's Face

The title of the poem shows the poet’s intention to be left alone as he prefers loneliness to being accompanied. Such loneliness a melancholic mind prefers to observe the sad feminine hands, her loneliness in the evening, weeping conch-bangles, conch shell. Only loneliness can soothe a melancholic mind.

Same sort of remorseful crying in different scenario of Bengal can be traced in the poem ‘I have seen Bengal’s Face’. In the last two lines given below a tune of melancholy produces suppressed pains of crying somewhere in our universal human soul: “When she danced like a torn wagtail in Indra’s court
Bengal’s river field, wild violets wept at her feet like anklet bells.” (Lines: 14-15)

Here by using images of Behula’s mournful dance, torn wagtail, weeping Bengal’s river, field, wild violets the poet marks very artfully a melancholic atmosphere. Even such remorseful crying is not absent in the poem “Ah

Marvelously in a mocking tone Thomas Gray in his poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’ reminds us that any human being may fall into the helpless condition as have been the case into the life of a favourite cat of the poet’s friend Walpole whom no one came to rescue. This poem contains a melancholy truth that a favourite has no friend. On the other hand, marvelously in a serious tone, Jibanananda Das in his two poems—‘The Cat’ and ‘Subinoy Mustafi’— reminds us of some sort of loneliness haunting us every moment when we feel helpless like a rat getting crushed gradually into the mouth of a cruel cat and frustrated enough to forget the ultimate consequence even in Heaven or