MAGAKAVI SUBRAMANIYA BHARATHIYAR

Subramania Bharati entered the national scene as an inspirational poet on patriotism. With a simple and yet fabulous technique of combining the rhythm of spoken language in a ceaseless flow of prose and poetry, Bharati captured the imagination of the Tamil people. .. For the first time Bharati introduced a spiritual dimension to the freedom movement and deliberated on three aspects in a marvelous literary combination of prose-poetry.
First, his compositions reveled on the physical and spiritual greatness of India. Although Bharati was deeply religious and an ardent devote of Shakti - the primordial power than makes and unmakes the whole universe, his poetry sang the glory of the universal nature of the Supreme Being and repeatedly shunned the mindless religious rituals and unrealistic traditional practices of the Hindu Society.
Second, Bharati's compositions uniquely emphasized the fundamental quality of freedom of an individual and nation, and the need to banish fear as the path to attain it. Bharati was inspired by Shelley's poetry on individual liberty, which served as a model for his patriotic poetry with a unique emphasis on the need for individual freedom. Bharati also was greatly influenced by Vande Mataram, a powerful poetry composed by Bankim Chandra and the Kali worship he witnessed at Banaras and his meeting Sister Nivedita, during a visit to Bengal. Perhaps these early experience enabled Bharati to inculcate fearlessness as a repeat them in his powerful poetry deriving its inspiration from what he considered as a spiritual source. He effectively unleashed this force in his revolutionary compositions on freedom and national unity. Third, Bharati highlighted the lives of great persons as living examples for emulation. For example, Sister Nivedita was an influential figure in the life of Bharati who blessed him to participate in the freedom movement and his literary work calling for the emancipation of women. Bharati dedicated Swadesha Geetangal and Janma Bhoomi to Sister Nivedita and described her as the living example of service in the cause of suffering and emancipation of women and the downtrodden communities...