Subramanya Bharathi Analysis

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Subramanya Bharathi are well aware to the two aspects of communal life, but Emerson highly held Individualism, while Bharathi made an extensive contribution to Socialism. Now, it forms the basic questions (in this analysis) that why they differ in their attitude towards the society?, secondly in such case, why Bharathi forward socialism in guise of spiritualism and nationalism?, and finally it poses, how perfect these aspects in complementing each other?

It must be noted that the mass movement and the displacement of the Europeans to American lands began around 1600 A.D. Thereafter the land experienced successive waves of immigration from people around the globe. Their aspirations for the relocation of land were many. Either they wanted political freedom or religious freedom or economic opportunity.

To many other migrants, moving to northern America brought the assurance of cheap land and freedom of enterprise. People of different professions like, fishermen, farmers, craftsmen, tradesmen, and shipbuilders found the profitable economic opportunity. Still others migrated to this new land to suffice their

Therefore, Emerson consciously operates nationalism in two levels. The first is what he called “The American Identity,” by which he tried to bring about a national identity to the land of culturally dispersed cross-national migrants. He sported a role of Transcendentalist, an implicit idea to abandon the religious and political imperialism originating from the west. The second is Emerson’s mystical faith in America, which he termed as “The American newness” by which he expected a new cultural spontaneity from the land. He visualized a nation of men and women, whose believes rest in themselves. Hence, Emerson has little option to choose Socialism against