This author incorporated the meter of the (*) ghazal into his corpus of nearly four thousand lyrics, such as "The Song of Destruction," collectively known as his namesake "geeti" or "sangeet."
This author addressed the material circumstances that made him "honored like Christ / with his crown of thorns" in his poem "Poverty." After being arrested for publishing an anti-British poem in his magazine The Comet, this author undertook a thirty-nine day hunger strike with his fellow prisoners. This author is best-known for a poem consisting mainly of declarative statements such as "I am the hurricane, I am the cyclone / I destroy all that I find in my path!" This author incorporated the meter of the (*) ghazal into his corpus of nearly four thousand lyrics, such as "The Song of Destruction," collectively known as his namesake "geeti" or "sangeet." Due of the popularity of his poem which ends: "I raise my head beyond this world, / High, ever erect and alone" and to his involvement in the Indian independence movement, this author was nicknamed the "Rebel Poet." For 10 points, name this fiery national poet of Bangladesh.
This author addressed the material circumstances that made him "honored like Christ / with his crown of thorns" in his poem "Poverty."
Kazi Nazrul Islam