Railgarir kamray hothat dekha,
Vabini somvob hobe konodin..
Age oke bar bar dekhechi
lal ronger sharite-
dalim phooler moto ranga;
aj poreche kalo reshomer kapor’
anchol tuleche mathay
dolonchanpar moto chikon gour mukhkhani ghire.
Mone holo, kalo ronge ekta govir durottwo
ghonea neache nijer chardike,
je durottwo sorshekheter sesh simanay
shalboner nilanjone.
Thomke gelo amar somosto monta,
Chena lokke dekhlam achenar gambhirje..
Hothat khoborer kagoj phele dea
amake korle nomoskar.
Somajbidhir poth gelo khule;
Alap korlem shuru-
‘kemon acho’ kemon cholche songsar’
Ityadi.
Se roilo janlar bairer dike cheye
Jeno kacher diner chonach par hoya chahonite.
Dile otwonto choto duto-ekta jobab
Konota ba dilei na.
Bujhea dile hater osthirotay-
Keno esob kotha,
er cheye onek valo chup kore thaka..
ami chilem onno benchite or sathider songe.
ek somoy angul nere janale kache aste.
Mone holo kom sahos noy-
Boslum or ek benchite.
Garir awajer arale
bolle mridusware,
"kichu mone koro na,
Somoy kotha somoy noshto korbar!
Amake namte hobe porer stationei;
Dure jabe tumi,
Dekha hobe na r konodin e.
Tai, je proshnotar jobab etokal theme ache,
Shunbo tomar mukhe.
Sotwo kore bolbe to?"
Ami bollem, "bolbo."
Bairer akasher dike takeai sudholo,
"amader geche je din
Ekebarei ki geche,
Kichu e ki nei baki."
Ektuku roilem chup kor;,
Tarpor bollem,
"rater sob tarae ache
Diner alor govire."
Khotka laglo, ki jani banea bollem naki.
O bolle, "thak, ekhon jao odike."
Sobai neme gelo porer statione.
Ami chollem eka..
The poem, ‘Hothat Dekha’ is written by Rabindranath Tagore. The poet is from Bengal and the most famous of the country and international. He wrote lots of poems on several subjects. This poem is from a category of his stalks. Here the poet gives centre space to a lady and penned the story around her. This content of this poem is on realistic subjects. The poet has lots of poems of this category. The eager observation on present time has traces here. The poet shows the relation between man and woman in this poem. The society of his time and the importance of humans are present here also. The poet takes various imagery of nature and relates those with a relation. The relation has many surfaces also and the connection with the nature and the relation is very spontaneous and well balanced in the poem. The poet wants to spread a message through an example of attachment between man and woman. The poet takes imagery of a sudden meet of a masculine and feminine and grows the story of them. Readers can get a ideal note about the relations and they can touch a level of their realisation.
Background
Bengal is in different changes and the society faces many evolutions. The force of changes give pressure to the people and they loss their own root and philosophy of an ideal life. The poet takes a huge part in awaking the people through his several essays, stories, plays, songs and poems. This poem is belongs to this group also. The poet calls people to hold their tradition. A tradition depends a lot on the females and there are examples in history, when the females attacked by civilization, destroy of that empire begins. So the poet aware the people of that time through a accidental meet of a male and female.
Structure of poem
The poem is essay type and there is no presence of a specific rhythm in the poem. The poem is medium in length and there are several departments. Those are not recognized as a paragraph exactly but people can say that there are five parts of this poem. Each part conveys different emotions but the main message is similar in whole. Apart from emotions, the parts convulse from one to another by maintaining the spirit. There poem is belonging to regular type.
Analysis
"Railgarir kamray hothat dekha,
Vabini somvob hobe konodin.."
Suddenly a person sees another person in train. The meeting is so unexpected which brings that person into a shocking mood.
"Age oke bar bar dekhechi
lal ronger sharite-
dalim phooler moto ranga;"
The person saw that other person, quite a few times in past in a Saree of red colour. Here the poem reflects the humour of the writer. Readers can understand that the first person was a man and the man saw a woman because Saree is an Indian costume and ladies of India and specially Bengal, wear this. So readers can be cleared after two lines about the presence of tow person. The poet immediately steps forward towards the nature and takes the imagery of a popular flower to describe the woman’s beauty.
"aj poreche kalo reshomer kapor’
anchol tuleche mathay
dolonchanpar moto chikon gour mukhkhani ghire."
Here the writer opens another door of curiosity. He says that the woman wears a black silky Saree and the traditional style of Bengal is present in the way of wearing the dress. This style has connection with that beautiful flower also and soothing effect reflects from that woman.
"Mone holo, kalo ronge ekta govir durottwo
ghonea neache nijer chardike,
je durottwo sorshekheter sesh simanay
shalboner nilanjone."
The black colour is destructive in Bengali culture. So these lines prove that the poem is written on Bengali culture. Here the poet imagines that the woman draw a line of distance through the black dress. The surrounding of that lady is being separated and the separation is very effective. Again the poet takes the help of nature and a popular field and forest of Bengal comes here to describe the deepness of the imagination.
"Thomke gelo amar somosto monta,
Chena lokke dekhlam achenar gambhirje.."
These lines say that the heart of that man stopped for the visual. He sees a lady whom he knows from a long time ago but now that known is being unknown for the structure of that lady.
"Hothat khoborer kagoj phele dea
amake korle nomoskar"
The third part begins from these lines where the ability of the poet shows. The man was thinking about the lady just before but now through an action the thinking suddenly changes. The lady downs her head as per as a traditional rule of giving felicitation to guardians or elders.
"Somajbidhir poth gelo khule;
Alap korlem shuru-
‘kemon acho’ kemon cholche songsar’
Ityadi."
The bindings broke with the action and the man gets confidence to talk. The man starts asking some formal questions like, ‘how r u?’, ‘how is life’ and etc.
"Se roilo janlar bairer dike cheye
Jeno kacher diner chonach par hoya chahonite."
Everything can’t be very easy and this proves in these two lines. The lady doesn’t give any answer of such questions and faces towards the window. The style of look of that lady says the flow away of past time.
"Dile otwonto choto duto-ekta jobab
Konota ba dilei na.
Bujhea dile hater osthirotay-
Keno esob kotha,
er cheye onek valo chup kore thaka.."
The woman hums with some little answers and the thinking of her inner part reflects through the ambiguity of her hands. The man clearly understands that the lady likes to live away from such questions and prefers to be quite.
"ami chilem onno benchite or sathider songe.
ek somoy angul nere janale kache aste.
Mone holo kom sahos noy-
Boslum or ek benchite."
The third part ends with previous lines and the next part begins from here. The line says that some time passed when the man sits on another place with some friends of that lady. The lady gives another shock and calls the man with the indication through her finger. This needs guts, according to the man and then he sits beside the lady.
"Garir awajer arale
bolle mridusware,
"kichu mone koro na,
Somoy kotha somoy noshto korbar!
Amake namte hobe porer stationei;
Dure jabe tumi,
Dekha hobe na r konodin e.
Tai, je proshnotar jobab etokal theme ache,
Shunbo tomar mukhe.
Sotwo kore bolbe to?"
The spirit of the poem commences from these lines. The lady says something with her soft voice in between loud sound of train. She says, not to mind anything through her earlier behaviour, she did that because the time is very short, her station is the next one and the man will go far way, so they both can’t get another opportunity of such meet. So she wants to know the answers of some question of past time and she questioned the man about the truth of the answer.
" Ami bollem, "bolbo."
Bairer akasher dike takeai sudholo,
"amader geche je din
Ekebarei ki geche,
Kichu e ki nei baki."
The man gives reply, ‘yes’ and the lady asks that the days which they spend together in early times, had all those gone away? Is there anything left?
"Ektuku roilem chup kor;,
Tarpor bollem,
"rater sob tarae ache
Diner alor govire."
The question bounds the man to take silence but after a while he breaks his silence with the help of universe. He takes the imagery of stars and gives reply that there is everything present in the back of those stars.
"Khotka laglo, ki jani banea bollem naki.
O bolle, "thak, ekhon jao odike."
The situation changes again with this answer, because according to the man, there are lacks of truth in the answer. So naturally he gets a negative reply. The lady says to sit him in another side.
"Sobai neme gelo porer statione.
Ami chollem eka.."
These last two lines are full of deep emotions and the presence of the emotion is very effective. The poet peens here that everyone gets down from train and he flow away with it alone. This comes from the deepest part of heart and there is no direction of cry, but readers can get some water in their eyes through a concentrated reading.
Summary
The poet introduces the poem with a man and woman and some description about the women through the imagery of natural elements. The convulsion of emotion is in several parts of this poem. The sudden change starts after the prophase. Some actions of the lady change the thinking of the man continuously. The poem is all about the remembrance of past relation of a man and woman through an accidental meeting. There are lots of levels of relation in the poem and amount of emotions are various also.
Importance of the poem
The current society has examples of lack of respect of ladies. The definition of relation changed also. So the poems of the poet can direct people towards an ideal civilization and people should read this category of poem like, ‘Hothat Dekha’, ‘Phanki’, ‘Camelia’, ‘Nishkriti’ and others to know about the various surfaces of human relation. Thus they can get the philosophy of leading an accurate life.
