![]() ![]() ![]() Folk songs are also inspired by the search for the perfect being and communal harmony as in baul songs. The lives of boatmen and the world of rudders, rivers, boats, sails, waves, banks inspire the long-drawn bhatiyali (song of the river), while the vast expanses of the land, the distant horizon, the sun and clouds, tiring afternoons and days inform the bhawaiya (song of the land). The baramasi (song of twelve months) describes the joys and sorrows of village women through the twelve months of the Bangla year. Nature, environment, seasonal diversity add to the beauty of folk songs. Everything, starting from individuals to society and from religion to occupations, influences the form of folk songs. Folk songs express the lifestyle of the rural people, with all their hopes, expectations, sorrows and dreams. The rich folk literature of Bengal includes folk songs, ballads, folk tales, folk drama, rhymes, incantations, riddles and proverbs that draw upon the indigenous culture of this land but which, through the centuries, have also absorbed alien cultures and been modified in the process.įolk songs are set to tune and passed down orally from generation to generation. At the same nature attunes them to appreciate nature and its changing faces, to sing about the land and the rivers, about the rain or the lack of it, about the pleasures or pains of the different seasons. ![]() The temperate climate of Bengal, where people do not need to struggle much for a living, tends to make the people easy going. Nevertheless, it is replete with artistic beauty, wit and joy.įolk literature, by its nature, is conditioned by the land and its environment. Because folk literature is oral basically, it tends to rely on some devices and patterns of language and style. Although composed by individuals, folk literature, by the nature of its composition and preservation, becomes a collective product and assumes the traditions, emotions, thoughts and values of the community. Though folk literature of one region may have similarities with that of another region, it tends to flourish in a certain geographical and environmental setting. Folk Literature is generally created by preliterate communities and passed down orally from one generation to another. ![]()
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