Satajit Ray –94th Birth Day Immemorial. Poem by Subrata Ray

From Ibsen, through Shaw, to Galsworthy,
Tagore to Conrad and onward,
And above all, Shakespeare, -the Avon’s bard,
Rise from the subconscious, and peep their faces,
In the dramatic glory of Satajit Ray’s art.

Projections of ideas from the unconscious mind,
Universalizes the theme of every film.

Pather Panchali –projects growing and becoming,
Apu’s struggle, love, duty, and suffering.
The joy of the unknown from willow to train-line,
The liberated -sky, open -nature, and adolescent –mind.

Kanchenjunga erects its head as the independence of the self,
The unemployed boy can feel his greater-Being well.

Jalsha-ghar declares the ego of blue blood,
Poverty may take every thing, but not the heart.

Gopi Gain and Bagha –Bain, -installs impossibility in life,
It satirizes human greed and follies by supernatural knife.

Agauntuk appears with a modern-minded reformed man,
And suffers the suspicion from civilized sane!

From film to film there sprout psychic gleams,
And we the audience get mirrored in them,
Ah! To make film a class by itself, Satajit Ray came.