Bimbvadi Kavi Chandrakant Devtal: Ek Samikshatmak Adhyan

Imagist Poet Chandrakant Devtale: An Analytical Study

Abstract

The meaning of Bimb (imagery) is the mental image or picture of an object or scene. It is a perception that arises when we see, hear, smell, touch, or taste something. In literature, imagery is used to create a vivid and clear picture in the reader’s mind. Within literary streams, changes and developments have occurred in circumstances, poetic tendencies, and styles over time. At present, imagery sometimes appears in a refined form as a figure of speech. In fact, the place once occupied by rhetorical ornaments (alankars) in ancient times has now been taken by imagery.
The poets of this literary tradition have skillfully used this art to depict the contemporary conditions of their times. Poet Dhoomil Devtale, in his poetry collections, has adopted a refined form of this art to strongly convey his emotions to readers and listeners. Through the flow of emotions in his imagery, at times he has made a hyena laugh, elsewhere he has shown the drama of language through imagery, and even engaged in a lively dialogue with the shadow of an ox. These are unmatched attempts of the poet’s art of imagery. The poet has succeeded in conveying, through imagery, the feelings that words alone could not define, even to illiterate and uneducated audiences.
In his poetry, Devtale has employed various kinds of imagery—gross, dynamic, pictorial, visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, abstract, synthetic, and color imagery—to successfully reach his readers.