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Jibanananda successfully integrated Bengali poetry with the slightly older [[Eurocentrism|Eurocentric]] international modernist movement of the early 20th century. In this regard he possibly owes as much to his exotic exposure as to his innate poetic talent. Although hardly appreciated during his lifetime, many critics believe that his modernism, evoking almost all the suggested elements of the phenomenon, remains untranscended to date, despite the emergence of many notable poets during the last 50 years. His success as a modern Bengali poet may be attributed to the facts that Jibanananda Das in his poetry not only discovered the tract of the slowly evolving 20th-century modern mind, sensitive and reactive, full of anxiety and tension, bu that he invented his own diction, rhythm and vocabulary, with an unmistakably indigenous rooting, and that he maintained a self-styled [[lyricism]] and [[imagism]] mixed with an extraordinary [[existentialism|existentialist]] sensuousness, perfectly suited to the modern temperament in the Indian context, whereby he also averted fatal dehumanisation that could have alienated him from the people. He was at once a ''classicist'' and a ''romantic'' and created an appealing world hitherto unknown:

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For thousands of years I roamed the paths of this earth,<br />