attracted me the most with passing years the spiritual element in his poetic corpus enthralled and enriched meexplaining that the element of spirituality found in bharatis poems is a sublime manifestation of the poets innate humanity subramanian says his poetic world is suffused with the sentiments of universality spirit of freedom love lust for life conquest of fear and human welfare these aspects have also determined my choice of poems for translationspeaking about the language of translation subramanian says there are major factors like meaning and rhythm and in dealing with these aspects one should have the sensitivity of a rasika and not the scholarship of a pedant he says while translating a work the connotative meaning should take precedence over the denotative meaning that aspect is the most prominent in this translation that has left the original essence in its place the fact that the words have not replaced feeling and the magic of the phrase has been maintained is the success of the bookthe author is a culture enthusiast