The style of Bharathi's english
@ Tuesday, 26. Feb, 2008 - 07:52:19 pmSri C Subramania Bharathi, the poet of Tamil Renaissanace, shows a happy flourish of style even in his English writings. The twists, turns and thrusts of his phrasal fibre mark him as an active mind in unison tension with the language. For example, in an essay 'Immortality' he argues for an underlying basis of Reality, which is Beauty in the heart of this world:" For a Divine Truth is the first reality of man's experience. There is a Beauty in the heart of this world. All conscious things are conscious of it in various degrees. It is what you know as existence, life, thought, passion, aspiration, or love.
The world lives. It has therefore a life working in and through its body. It is the life of the Universe that the sages have glorified by the name Divine." Also he writes 'for the wine of mortality has a terrible fascination for most of us'. Agree we may with or argue out his ideas, Bharathi's using of the language has a naivity about it and hence freshness.
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