Swami Vivekananda – As a Poet

Abstract

Swami Vivekananda who, in words of Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble his Irish devoted disciple), breathed India. He was a personality of multiple facets – a thinker, a philosopher, a saint, a preacher, a leader, a reformer and so on. Very few people know him as a Poet. The English poetry in India brought by the ending years of the nineteenth century has chiefly taken the form of a revival of cultural patriotism, highly necessary for a nation. It also has religious impact on it in the sense that it evolved out of the magnificent past of India. And whosoever can be the best admirer of this culture and glory of its past that is one and only Swami Vivekananda. We find a mixture of these aspects in Vivekananda’s poetry also but ratio of religion is larger than other aspects of his poetry.