Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world. V.M.Sethuraman functions as an active legislator of the mankind and an advocate for the oppressed. The poet is optimistic and at the same time is conscious of his mission when he declares thus:
A thousand gates, with wide-open arms
Have gladly welcomed me;
But I have come to sing and spread over
World’s thought- rays of verse.
Most of his poems are metaphysical and are a proof to his philosophical outlook. He is a dedicated devotee of a saint, by name Sadhu Gurusamy.The ascetic nature of the poet is clearly expressed in the following lines:
The garlands that fall around my neck
Are thorns that prick my frame:
The arrows that are shot at me
Are soft as petals of a flower.
V.M.Sethuraman who has visited
Individual freedom
Exists unimpaired, unparalalled!
It is for all eyes to see!
“All for All” is practiced
With an eagerness to help those in want
Could behold - Freedom and
Keeps all hearts happy!
As a poet Vaa.Mu.See.is overjoyed to see the individual freedom existing in an unparalleled state in
Degrading meanness
Never crosses their mind of thought!
Rule of the mind
Not that of fate
But one deep thinking
Removes all cares and worries from them
Moral obligations rule their hearts
Strength of convictions in American’s might!
V.M.Sethuraman has got a clear and open mind and appreciates various countries with a view to exhibit their special characteristics. He has written many poems on almost all the countries he has visited and he is the only poet who has written travelogue in verse.
Of course it needs an elaborate volume to illustrate the poetic genius of V.M.Sethuraman.Briefly speaking he may rightly be called as “An Apostle of Humanism.”
He works for the emancipation of mankind from the clutches of oppression, religious fundamentalism and racism. Not only
To have such a poet who always acts as a missionary with a zest and zeal to redeem the mankind from all sorts of evils.
(Translations of the poems: Dr.Krishna Srinivas)
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He worked as a tamil teacher in Muslim High School, Triplicane during 70-75 when I read in that school. I read tamil under him in 11th standard in 1975.
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