CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

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Who is the original poet of this poem?
A
Maya Angelou
B
Subramania Bharati
C
A.K. Ramanujan
D
M.K. Gandhi
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Bharati’s best-known works included Kaṇṇan pāṭṭu (1917; Songs to Krishna), Panchali sapatham (1912; Panchali’s Vow), and Kuyil pāṭṭu (1912; Kuyil’s Song). Many of his English works were collected in Agni and Other Poems and Translations and Essays and Other Prose Fragments (1937).

Detailed explanation-2: -Editor of Tamil India and English Bala Bharati, Subramania was greatly influenced by Sri Aurobindo and VVS Iyer, and later by Mahatma Gandhi. To symbolize the spirit of national unity he adopted the turban as popularly worn by the Sikhs of Northern India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Subramaniya Bharathiyar was a poet, freedom fighter and social reformer from Tamil Nadu. He was known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar and the laudatory epithet Mahakavi means a great poet. He is considered as one of India’s greatest poets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Subramanyam Bharti Award (Devanagari: ) is a literary honour in India which Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, (Central Hindi Organization), Ministry of Human Resource Development, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in Hindi literature.

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