Page 2 : Narayana, , Menon, , Parameswara., , and, , Ullor, , Narayana, , S., , • The only poet in Malayalam, , Guru's, , became, , influence led Asan to spiritual pursuits, and he spent some time at a local, temple,, , in, , prayers, , and, , without, , writing a Mahakavyam, • First Malayalam poet appeared, , teaching, , Sanskrit. Soon, he joined Guru at his, , Mahakavi, , on Indian postal stamps, A, , highly, , philosophical, , poem,, , Aruvippuram hermitage where he was, , 'Veena Poovu' is an allegory of the, , known, , transience of the mortal world, which, , as, , Chinnaswami, , ("young, , ascetic")., , is depicted through the description of, , Asan was also involved with the, , the varied stages in the life of a flower., , activities of the SNDP and became its, , Asan describes in such detail about its, , secretary in 1904. The same year, he, , probable past and the position it held., , founded, , Vivekodayam,, , a, , literary, , •, , It is an intense sarcasm on, , journal in Malayalam, and assumed its, , people on high powers/positions, , editorship. Under his leadership, the, , finally losing all those. The first, , magazine became a monthly from a, , word Ha, and the last word, , bi-monthly. In 1913, he was elected to, , Kashtam of the entire poem is, , the Sree Moolam Popular Assembly, , often considered as a symbolism, , (Sri Moolam Praja Sabha), the first, , of him calling the world outside, , popularly elected legislature in the, , Ha! kashtam (How pitiful), , history of India

Page 3 : Duravastha (The Tragic Plight)- A, , •, , He was a nationalist poet and, , love story depicting the relationship, , wrote a series of poems on, , between, , Namboothiri, , various aspects of the Indian, , heiress and Chathan, a youth from a, , freedom movement. He also, , lower caste. A political commentary on, , wrote against caste restriction,, , 19th and early 20th century Kerala., , tyrannies and orthodoxies. He, , Chandaalabhikshuki-, , founded, , Savithri,, , a, , This, , poem,, , the, , Kerala, , divided into four parts and consisting, , Kalamandalam and is credited, , of couplets, describes an untouchable, , with revitalising the traditional, , beggar-woman" (also the name of the, , Keralite dance form known as, , poem), , Kathakali., , Vallathole Narayana Menon, , Padma Bhushan title, India's, , He was one of the triumvirate, poets of modern Malayalam, along, with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S., Parameswara, , awarded, , third highest civilian award, in, 1954., His poems began appearing in, Bhashaposhini, Kerala Sanchari and, , Mahakavi (English: "great poet") was, , Vijnana Chintamani magazines. His, , applied to him in 1913 after the, , first major literary ventures was a, , publication, , rendition of Valmiki's Ramayana into, , of, , his, , The, , was, , honorific, , Chitrayogam., , Iyer., , He, , Mahakavya, , Malayalam, the work of which started

Page 4 : in 1905 and took two years to, , upon him by the Prince of Wales, , complete., , during his India visit in 1922. Vallathol, , •, , His khanda kavya on Mary, , remained a great admirer of Mahatma, , Magdalene, , Magdalana, , Gandhi and wrote the poem "Ente, , Mariam paved the way for a new, , Gurunathan" ("My Great Teacher") in, , tradition, , Christian, , his praise. At the same time, he felt, , symbolism in Malayalam. Other, , attracted by the Communist ideology, , celebrated, , and, , titled, , in, , of, , short, , poems, , of, , poems, , praising, , the, , Sishyanum, , achievements of the Soviet Union. He, , Makanum, Virasinkala, Achanum, , wrote several patriotic poems hailing, , Makalum,, , India's nationalist movement., , Vallathol, , include, , Divaswapnam, , and, , Ente Gurukulam., Involvement, , in, , Nationalist, , movement, Vallathol, greatest, , is, , regarded, , nationalist, , poet, , as, , the, , of, , the, , language. He actively participated in, the, , wrote, , Nationalist, , movement., , He, , attended the all India Conferences of, the Indian Congress in 1922 and 1927, and rejected a royal honour bestowed