Bharathi impresses one as a unique personality in the historical context of Tamil poetry. As Bharathidasan puts it, he emerged as a 'singing moon'to rouse people out of their 'long slumber'! He ventured into poetic career with the strong conviction in 'poetry for people's sake'. He broke away from the tradition of scholarly poetic diction and unbridled poetic imagination. He set a new trend by singing about the immediate concerns of the heart in the ordinary language of the common man. The trend swept the orthodox off their feet and had a new group of young poets teeming with concern for the society. especially, the downtrodden and the weak and the hungry.