Subramania Bharati was an influential Indian writer from the late 19th/early 20th century known as the father of modern Tamil literature. He received little formal education but became involved in journalism and Indian independence movement. His nationalistic poems and essays were popular successes. The poem "Wind" describes the destructive power of wind but also suggests how people can become resilient like the wind in facing life's difficulties. It uses the wind as a symbol for the challenges of life.

1. Beehive-: poem 2 –
WIND -Subrahmania Bharati

3. ABOUT THE POET-SUBRAMANIA BHARATI
(born December 11, 1882, Ettaiyapuram, Madras Presidency, India—died SMadras
(now Chennai)), outstanding Indian writer of the nationalist period who is regarded as
the father of the modern Tamil styleeptember 12, 1921. The son of a
learned Brahman, Bharati became a Tamil scholar at an early age. He received little
formal education, however, and in 1904 he moved to Madras (now Chennai). There
he translated English into Tamil for several magazines and later joined the Tamil daily
newspaper Swadesamitran. This exposure to political affairs led to his involvement in
the extremist wing of the Indian National Congress party, and, as a result, he was
forced to flee to Pondicherry (now Puducherry), a French colony, where he lived in
exile from 1910 to 1919. During this time Bharati’s nationalistic poems and essays
were popular successes. Upon his return to India in 1919 he was briefly imprisoned
and later rejoined Swadesamitran. He was killed by a temple elephant in Madras.

4. ABOUT THE POEM
The poem is about “Wind”, as its name
suggests. The poet has described the power
of the wind and says that it causes a lot of
destruction. But in the end, the poet has
suggested the ways in which we can become
friends with the wind. The poet represented
the destructive nature of the wind with the
difficulties of life.
It conveys a powerful message that when
difficulties come in our life, the brave people
face them with courage and overcome all the
challenges. On the contrary, weak people get
afraid and break down easily. So, it’s

5. HOW DOES WIND FORM?

10. DESTRUCTIVE WIND

13. POKING FUN: MAKING FUN OF
SOMETHING
WEAKLINGS: A PERSON WHO IS WEAK

14.  SCATTER=
SEPARATE
 FRAIL= FRAGILE

16. CRUMBLING: FALLING OR TO CAUSE
SOMETHING TO BREAK
RAFTER: SLOPING BEAM WHICH
SUPPORT THE ROOF OF THE
BUILDING

17. WINNOWS: TO BROKE GRAIN FREE OF
CHAFF, SEPARATE GRAIN FROM
HUSK BY BLOWING ON IT

19. LITERARY DEVICES IN THE POEM
 Rhyme scheme - The entire poem is written in free verse. There is no rhyme
scheme in the poem.
The literary devices used are as follows –
 Anaphora - When a word is repeated at the start of two or more consecutive lines, it
is the device of Anaphora.
 Lines 2, 3, 4 begin with ‘don’t’.
Lines 6, 7, 8 begin with ‘you’.
 Personification – wind has been personified. When the poet says ‘you are’, he is
referring to wind as ‘you’ that means he is treating wind as a person.
 Repetition - ‘crumbling’ is repeated many times to lay emphasis. The poet wants to
say that the wind crushes everything that is weak. That is why he repeats the word
crumbling.
 Alliteration - the repetition of a consonant sound in close connection. ‘wind
winnows’.
 ‘won’t want’
 Symbolism - Symbolism means that the thing refers to some other thing. the wind
is a symbol. It refers to the challenges in life. He is using wind as a symbol for the
adversities in our life

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