Wind Poem (Summary and Questions and Answers)
CBSE Class 9 - English Literature (Beehive)
Poet: Subramania Bharati
Subramania Bharati (1882–1921) is a great Tamil poet, famous for his patriotism in the pre-Independence era.
Translated By: A.K. Ramanujan (translated the Tamil poem to English)
Poem Summary
This poem is of the Pre-Independence Era where Britishers ruled India. Subramania Bharti is a patriotic and endorses his love by pouring out anger and frustration in this poem. His anguish against the devastation caused and the struggling period Indian peasants & workers were going through is compared by the destruction caused by wind. Wind is metaphorically describing the obstacles or the hindrances that come and destroy a person's life. He starts by requesting the wind not to shatter down everything as it has crumbled so many lives. Wind symbolises the difficulties that are faced in lives.