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 Development of Literature 23 understood the dignity of man as man, song of the toils and labours of the workers and felt the glory of India in every vein of his body. Tamil Nad will cherish the memory of the sweet bard and continue to sing his songs for edification and delight. Of the innovations of Bharathi, the introduction of the blank verse in Tamil poetry is very important. The imagery, the diction, the comprehensive vision of Bharathi find adequate expression in his poems.

There are some English echoes in his poems which arrest the attention of the reader. For example, the says that the sweet strains of music of the Kuyil, (a kind of Skylark) set him to think of things which he has not thought of before.

Wordsworth sang :-

“Qne impulse from the vernal wood Can teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can,”

In the same poem, Bharathi speaks of the pearls in the bowels of the oyster and the red lotus in the ‘dirty pond. Here we find an echo of Gray’s lines,

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear” �