Amalkanti

English poem

1. ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL Name : Vinayak Yadav Class : VIII th B Subject : English AMALKANTI By Nirendranath Chakrabarti

2. About The Poet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    Nirendranath Chakraborty was born on 19 October 1924 in Bengal. Nirendranath Chakraborty won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King). Nirendranath Chakraborty was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree, in 2007 by the University of Calcutta.  

3. About The Poem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amalkanti is a poem which was originally written in Bengali by Nirendranath Chakrabarti Amalkanti is a very meaningful poem. “Amalkanti” describes the incidents which occurred in the life of Amalkanti and as observed by the poet. Children often discuss among each other about what each of them wants to be when grown-up. All the children wanted to follow the conventional professions. Of all the children Amalkanti had a strange desire, he wanted to be sunlight. All the children achieved , more or less, whatever they wanted to be in their future life. However, the desire Amalkanti to become sunlight was not realized. The poem can be perceived in more than one way. It can be said that Amalkanti worked in a dark and that did not realized his dream. On the other hand, it can also be said that by working for a printer, he became (sort of sunlight) by spreading knowledge via books.

4. About The Amalkanti Amalkanti was friend and classmate of the poet . He was weak and careless students often he would go to school late and never bothered to complete school work the poet has revealed the fact that Amalkanti could not tell three forms of the word whenever the teacher asked him, he started to look out of the window he looked confused and speachless .

5. Summary   The poet makes the fact clear that classmates of their class work and ambitious and alert they had their goes to be teachers, doctors, or lawyers but Amalkanti was different. He did not help any aim or carrier plane but he was always wanted be sunlight so that he might enlighten years passed, most of the students settle down. Some of the students settle down, some of them became doctors, some teachers, and some lawyers etc.

6. The poet said that Amalkanti failed to achieved his goal. He couldn’t become sunlight, the person bring hope and light in any bodies life. Misfortunately he had to work in a semic dark room as press worker. He was enable to enlighten even his own life.