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सांझ(कविता)

Sanjh (Kavita)

Jagdish Gupta

1 min read 6 versesEvening Nature Sadness

6 verses · ~1 min

जिस दिन से संज्ञा आई छा गई उदासी मन में, ऊषा के दृग खुलते ही हो गई सांझ जीवन में।

मुँह उतर गया है दिन का तरुओं में बेहोशी है, चाहे जितना रंग लाए फिर भी प्रदोष दोषी है।

रवि के श्रीहीन दृगों में जब लगी उदासी घिरने, संध्या ने तम केशों में गूंथी चुन कर कुछ किरनें।

जलदों के जल से मिल कर फिर फैल गए रंग सारे, व्याकुल है प्रकृति चितेरी पट कितनी बार सँवारे।

किरनों के डोरे टूटे तम में समीर भटका है, जाने कैसे अंबर में यह जलद पटल अटका है।

रश्मियाँ जलद से उलझीं तिमिराभ हुई अरुणाई, पावस की साँझ रंगीली गीली-गीली अलसाई।

इति

Rasa: Karuna
Stanzas: 6
Lines: 24
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Geet (lyric song)
Metre: geet
Rhyme: ABCB

The poem evokes a profound, melancholic mood of karuna rasa, where the onset of evening mirrors a deep, inescapable sorrow that clouded the speaker's consciousness since the dawn of awareness. Visually, a painting of this scene would show a despondent dusk where the day's face has fallen and the trees stand in a drowsy, motionless stupor beneath a heavy, grief-stricken sky. In this twilight landscape, personified as a mourning maiden, evening weaves stray beams of dying sunlight into her dark tresses of gathering darkness, while a restless nature-painter frantically tries to rearrange the swirling, damp hues of trapped monsoon clouds and broken sunbeams. Symbolizing the premature end of joy and the blurring boundaries between lingering light and creeping gloom, the artistic tone is one of tragic resignation, capturing a wet, languid, and deeply sorrowful monsoon evening.

सांझ(कविता) (Sanjh (Kavita)), by Jagdish Gupta runs to 24 lines across 6 stanzas, set as Six four-line stanzas (quatrains).. Its governing rasa is Karuna, shaded by Shanta. The metre is geet. Rhyme falls as ABCB.

It belongs to the 1924 · 2001 span of Jagdish Gupta's working life, and keeps the plain, spoken register that period is known for.

Read it for सांझ के समय प्रकृति में व्याप्त उदासी and जीवन के उत्तरार्ध का प्रतीकात्मक चित्रण. 3 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Sunset on the Backwaters: Bathed in a deeply spiritual quietude, the painting evokes a serene and meditative emotional atmosphere that invites silent contemplation. It depicts a lone wooden boat resting upon the glass-smooth expanse of the…

Words worth pausing on

प्रदोष: सूर्यास्त के बाद का समय, शाम
जलद: बादल
तिमिराभ: अंधकार जैसी आभा वाला

Threads

Evening Nature Sadness

The Poet

जगदीश गुप्त

Jagdish Gupta

1924 · 2001

Jagdish Gupta was a defining architect of the Nayi Kavita or New Poetry movement, a pivotal era that completely reshaped the landscape of Hindi literature. Born in 1924, he refused to let modern Hindi verse stagnate in the predictable rhythms of older romantic traditions. Alongside literary giants like Ramswaroop Chaturvedi, he founded the highly influential journal Nayi Kavita in 1954, providing a vital platform for a new generation of experimental voices. Gupta wrote with a profoundly visual intellect, drawing deeply from classical mythology and ancient Indian aesthetics to explain the anxieties and fragmentation of the modern world. His poetry masterfully balances deep intellectual rigor with delicate emotional nuance. Recognized with the Bharat Bharati Award in 1998, he passed away in 2001, leaving behind a monumental legacy. He taught Hindi poetry how to look at the complexities of the contemporary age without ever losing its sense of classical beauty.