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the statement? If so, which are the undesirable elements
that the poet desires to free ourselves from?

5. What differences do you see between ‘the India’ visualized
by the poet and the present one?
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Read and appreciate

1. What images or pictures can you visualize when you
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read the following lines? You can draw or mime or
dramatize the action suggested in these lines.

a. This is the hour of song and dance.

b. We’ll blow the conch of victory.

c. Now lie and deceit are dead.

d. Honour to the ploughman and the worker.

2. Look at stanza two. Which words are repeated?
What effect does this repetition have on the reader?
Know about the author

Chinnaswami Subramanya Bharathi was a
writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence
activist and social reformer from Tamil Nadu.
Popularly known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar, he
is a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry.

“He who writes poetry is not a poet. He
whose poetry has become his life, and who
has made his life his poetry – it is he who is a poet.”
Subramanya Bharathi is the real poet who fulfils this definition.

Suggested reading

1. ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ – Rabindranath Tagore

2. ‘To India My Native Land’ – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

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