Nature has always found a prominent place in Tamil poetry. Whether it is description of nature per se, or description of nature as objective correlatives of subjective feelings, we find them aplenty in the compositions of Tamil poets from the days of Kapilar of Sangam Era to the present. Bharathi Dasan, though popularly known as a poet of revolutionary ideals, can be found to have an intrinsic affinity with nature. His concern for the community and his longings for social change get reflected effortlessly in his description of Nature.

This lesson attempts to present to you a few glimpses of how Bharathi Dasan viewed different objects of Nature, and how his perception of nature was always coloured with his concern for the suffering and the marginalized.