World Poetry Day 2024: World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21. The day honours the profound impact that poetry has had on our lives, cultures, and societies throughout the ages. Poetry, with its eloquence and depth, serves as a timeless medium for expressing the intricacies of the human experience, weaving together emotions, thoughts, and perspectives into beautiful tapestries of language. As we commemorate this day, let us pay homage to the myriad of poets whose words have resonated across generations, inspiring, comforting, and challenging us to see the world.
World Poetry Day 2024: Date, History, Significance, & All You Need To Know.
List of Famous Poets in the World and Their Lines
William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He is one of the greatest playwrights and poets in the English language. His debut as a playwright is believed to have been around 1590. Shakespeare's writing style is characterized by its eloquence, versatility, and profound insight into human nature.
Also known as ‘Son of Bard’, his works often explore themes of love, power, jealousy, and ambition with unparalleled depth. Though awards in the modern sense did not exist in his time, his legacy is commemorated through numerous honours and accolades, including his enduring influence on literature and theatre. Among his notable works are timeless classics such as "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "Macbeth," which continue to captivate audiences worldwide.
Sonnet 8Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? |
Harivansh Rai Bachchan: Harivansh Rai Bachchan was born on November 27, 1907. He was an Indian poet and writer of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th-century Hindi literature. Bachchan is famously known for his early work, Madhushala, which was published in 1935.
In 1976, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan for his service to Hindi literature.
अग्निपथवृक्ष हों भले खड़े,
तू न थकेगा कभी,
यह महान दृश्य है, |
Robert Frost: Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. He was an iconic American poet whose debut came with the publication of his poetry collection "A Boy's Will" in 1913. Renowned for his mastery of rural New England settings, Frost's writing style often blended traditional verse forms with modernist techniques, creating poems that resonate with profound themes of nature, isolation, and the human condition.
His notable works include "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and "Mending Wall." Frost received numerous accolades throughout his career, including four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, solidifying his status as one of the most beloved and influential poets in American literature.
| The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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Maithili Sharan Gupt: Maithili Sharan Gupt was born on August 3 1886. He was one of the most important modern Hindi poets who wrote in the Khari Boli dialect. For his book Bharat-Bharati (1912), widely quoted during India's freedom struggle, he was given the title of Rashtra Kavi by Mahatma Gandhi.
Gupt entered the world of Hindi literature by writing poems for various magazines, including Saraswati. In 1909, his first major work, Rang mein Bhang, was published by the Indian Press. Most of his poems revolve around plots from the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Buddhist stories, and the lives of famous religious leaders. He is a recipient of the third highest (then second highest) Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan.
नर हो, न निराश करो मन कोकुछ काम करो, कुछ काम करो जग में रह कर कुछ नाम करो यह जन्म हुआ किस अर्थ अहो समझो जिसमें यह व्यर्थ न हो कुछ तो उपयुक्त करो तन को नर हो, न निराश करो मन को |
Mahadevi Verma: Mahadevi Verma was born on March 26, 1907 She was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer, and eminent personality in Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. She has also been addressed as the modern Meera.
She developed a soft vocabulary in the Hindi poetry of Khadi Boli, which before her was considered possible only in Braj bhasha. For this, she chose the soft words of Sanskrit and Bangla and adapted them to Hindi. As the most popular female litterateur of the last century, she remained revered throughout her life.
यह मंदिर का दीपयह मन्दिर का दीप इसे नीरव जलने दो चरणों से चिन्हित अलिन्द की भूमि सुनहली, पल के मनके फेर पुजारी विश्व सो गया, |
William Butler Yeats: William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865. He was an Irish poet, dramatist, and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. The driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, he was one of the founders of Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
His poetry, especially the volumes The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), The Tower (1928), The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), and Last Poems and Plays (1940), made him one of the outstanding and most influential twentieth-century poets writing in English.
A CoatI MADE my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked. |
Sumitranandan Pant: Sumitranandan Pant was an Indian poet born on May 20, 1900. He was one of the most celebrated 20th-century poets of the Hindi language and was known for romanticism in his poems, which were inspired by nature, people, and beauty within.
One of the main poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature. Pant mostly wrote in Sanskritized Hindi. Pant authored twenty-eight published works, including poetry, verse plays, and essays. Padma Bhushan and Gyanpith Award winner Pant also wrote progressive, socialist, humanist, and philosophical (influenced by Sri Aurobindo) poems.
कितने ही मधु पतझर बीत गये अनजानेअर्द्धशती हहराती निकल गयी है तबसे ! कितने ही मधु पतझर बीत गये अनजाने, ग्रीष्म तपे, वर्षा झूली, शरदें मुसकाई, सी-सी कर हेमन्त कँपे, तरु झरे, खिले वन ! और' जब फिर से गाढ़ी, ऊदी लालसा लिये गहरे, कजरारे बादल बरसे धरती पर, मैंने कौतूहल-वश आँगन के कोने की गीली तह यों ही उँगली से सहलाकर बीज सेम के दबा दिये मिट्टी के नीचे- भू के अंचल में मणि-माणिक बाँध दिये हो ! मैं फिर भूल गया इस छोटी-सी घटना को, और बात भी क्या थी याद जिसे रखता मन ! किन्तु, एक दिन जब मैं सन्ध्या को आँगन में टहल रहा था,- तब सहसा, मैने देखा उसे हर्ष-विमूढ़ हो उठा मैं विस्मय से! |
John Keats: John Keats was born on October 31, 1795. He was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, even though his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.
The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today, his poems and letters are some of the most popular and analyzed in English literature.
Bright StarBright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
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William Wordsworth: William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770. He was an English Romantic poet and one of the founders of Romanticism. The Poet Laureate is famous for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the ‘growth of a poet’s mind.’
Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. He is known for his poetry that explores spiritual and epistemological themes, explores the relationship between humans and nature, and is an outspoken supporter of using everyday language and speech patterns in poetry.
My Heart Leaps Up My heart leaps up when I behold
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Suryakant Tripathi: Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ was born on February 21, 1899, at Mahishadal in Midnapore in the Bengal Presidency. He was an Indian poet, novelist, essayist, and story-writer who wrote in Hindi. After his marriage at the age of 20, Nirala learned Hindi at the insistence of his wife, Manohara Devi. Soon, he started writing poems in Hindi instead of Bengali.
Suryakant Tripathi's ‘Nirala’ was inspired by personalities like Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, and Rabindranath Tagore. His famous and notable works include Saroj Smriti, and Raam Ki Shaktipuja, among other available novels, translations, poetry, and collections of stories.
| आनन्द के समय जितना ही चुप रहा जाए, आनन्द उतना ही स्थायी होता है, और तभी उसकी अनुभूति का सच्चा सुख भी प्राप्त होता है। |
World Poetry Day is a chance to illuminate our world and nourish our souls. Each poet, with their unique style and perspective, reminds us of the beauty and complexity of the human experience. Let us seek solace in its verses during times of turmoil, find inspiration within its lines, and share its treasures with generations yet to come. Happy World Poetry Day to all, and may the echoes of poetic expression continue to resonate throughout our world.
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