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His poetry was a forerunner to modern Tamil poetry in different aspects and combined classical and contemporary elements. He penned thousands of verses on diverse topics like Indian Nationalism, love, children, nature, glory of the Tamil language, and odes to prominent freedom fighters.
Subramania Bharati, who wrote in the Tamil language, was a literary colossus. Influenced by the Romantic poets, the radical poet used the pen-name "Shelley-dasan", meaning disciple of Shelly.
Oct 14, 2024 · Bharati’s best-known works included Kaṇṇan pāṭṭu (1917; Songs to Krishna), Panchali sapatham (1912; Panchali’s Vow), and Kuyil pāṭṭu (1912; Kuyil’s Song). Many of his English works were collected in Agni and Other Poems and Translations and Essays and Other Prose Fragments (1937).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 1, 2021 · Bharati’s poetry was disseminated in another way than that of reading or recitation, one that might be considered traditional rather than modern: through music. He set his words to tuneful, catchy melodies that made them available to a public that was as yet largely illiterate (Bate, “Bharati” 2).
- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
- 2021
Bharathi was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry with an excellent knowledge of Tamil poetry and prose. He has written poems and articles on Tamil, Tamil welfare, Indian liberation, women’s liberation, caste denial and various religions.
May 13, 2018 · Bharati, then popular as a poet but living in penury, said his works were “very easy, lucid, clear, luminous, and all but too popular in style and diction and, at the same time, chaste, pure, correct, epic, and time-defying”.
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Jul 14, 2018 · Mass movements began in the State and Bharathi’s patriotic poems became hugely popular. By this time, the Dravidian Movement, the Tamil movement and the labour movement were also on the rise.
