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'''"Bodh"''' ({{lang-bn|বোধ}}, in [[Clinton B. Seely]]'s English translation "Sensation"<ref name="parabaas">{{cite web|author=Seely Clinton B.|author-link=Clinton B. Seely|url=http://www.parabaas.com/jd/articles/seely_scent_intro.shtml|title="By way of Introduction": The Scent of Sunlight, Poems of Jibanananda Das, translated by Clinton Seely |publisher=Parabaas.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-24}}</ref> and [[Fakrul Alam]]'s "An Overwhelming Sensation"<ref>{{cite news |title=Barisal by the Bay |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=142292 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=2010-06-12 |accessdate=2012-01-24}}</ref>) is a celebrated [[Bengali language|Bengali]] poem written by [[Jibanananda Das]] in 1930. It was first published in the literary magazine ''Pragati'' in 1336 of [[Bengali calendar]]. The poem was later included in Jibanananda Das' poetry book ''Dhushor Pandulipi (The Grey Manuscript)'' published in 1936. [[Clinton B. Seely]] wrote that in "Sensation", Jibanananda gives his readers an account of the burden he bore, the creative process conceived of as a presence, a constant companion, and not always a welcomed one:<ref name="parabaas"/> Prof. Alam opined that the poem is "about a man overwhelmed by the poetic fit and, indeed, consumed by it."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Alam|first1=Fakrul|title=Selected Poems of Jibanananda Das|date=2010|publisher=The University Press Limited|location=Dhaka|isbn=978 984 8815 15 1|page=29|edition=2nd|language=English|quote=People writing about their meetings with Jibanananda Das have described him as a man who often seemed to be in a trance. In a short story published in a 1933 at about the time this poem was published Das himself had written: "The desire to create artworks, the thirst for them ... this life-long curse of the artist has destroyed all possibilities of being a social success. Nevertheless, I have not tried to abandon the fate of the artist for the haven of the family; no artist can do so." This, it seems to the translator, is a poem about a man overwhelmed by the poetic fit and, indeed, consumed by it.}}</ref>

<poem style="margin-left:2em">
Into the half light and shadow go I. Within my head
Not a dream, but some sensation works its will.
Not a dream, not peace, not love,
A sensation born in my very being.
I cannot escape it
For it puts its hand in mine,
And all else pales to insignificance—futile, so it seems.<ref>{{cite web|title="Sensation" translated by Clinton B. Seely|url=http://www.parabaas.com/jd/articles/seely_scent_sensation.shtml|publisher=Parabaas.com.|accessdate=18 May 2012}}</ref>
</poem>

==Transliteration of one stanza in the Latin alphabet==
{{Verse translation|
'''Transliteration'''

Sakal loker majhe base;
Nijer ami mudradoshe;
Ami aka hotechi alada;
|attr1=4th stanza|
'''Translation'''

As I take a seat among other beings,
Am I becoming estranged and alone
Because of my mannerisms?}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtl2iyW5FTk Recitation of ''Bodh'' on Youtube]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fci0R5OtvIs Shimul Mustapha's Recitation of ''Bodh'' on Youtube]
*[http://www.parabaas.com/jd/articles/seely_scent_sensation.shtml Bodh in English Translation by Clinton B. Seely]
*[http://allpoetry.com/poem/8593865-Sensation__Bodh_-by-Jibanananda_Das Bodh on allpoetry.com]
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