Al Mahmud (1936-) is one of the leading poets in Bangla literature. His poetry richly reflects modernism with a difference. He is a modernist with a perennial appeal because he has his roots firmly grounded in the soil. With a distinct and purely original feeling, what Mahmud represents in his poetry are women, love, carnality, domestic life, a mix of history and legends of Bengal's past, a craving for twilight, water, dancing brook, hills, flowers, birds, boat, coxswain, river, especially the river Titas, and the native village he left behind. Among these recurrent themes, women and their beauty are inextricably blended in most of his poems except the religious ones. In his depiction of women, Mahmud considers all the roles a woman plays. In his eyes, women are very impressive, resplendent in beauty, overwhelmed with sexual desire and graceful in the fullest sense. The poet describes different limbs and appendages of the body of women in such a provoking tune as if they are the only subsistence of his poetry. The aim of this article is to bring out the characteristic features of women in Mahmud's poetry.

Keywords: Al Mahmud, Bangla Poetry, Modernism, Representation of Women, Nature Imagery, Carnality.