Kalidasa as a Poet of Nature (KEY IJP************429)

• Dr. Suparna Saha

Abstract

Klidsa was undoubtedly a poet of nature. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings of the poet (Oxford Dictionary). Mary B. Harris in her work, Klidsa, poet of Nature writes that he was a man of culture and acquainted with the fine arts this we infer from the number and character of these allusions to painting and music, in his lyrics and dramas. He was a Natural student and nature lover as are most of his race; these great world artist of nature whose talent is seen at its highest mark in his poem The seasons, which also gives rein to the poets other supreme characteristic of intricate eroticism inter-woven with Nature. Klidsa is renowned for his similes.