Edappally Raghavan Pillai Edappally Raghavan Pillai Edappally Raghavan Pillai (30 May 1909 – 4 July 1936) was a Malayalam poet who was closely associated with Changampuzha Krishna Pillai. They are considered as Shelley and Keats of Malayalm poetry. Pillai has been compared by Kesari Balakrishna Pillai to Giacomo Leopardi of Italy. Raghavan Pillai's best poem is perhaps "Maninadam" (The sound of the bells) which he wrote a short while before committing suicide by hanging himself from a tree. The farewell song opens by: It is believed that the famous pastoral play "Ramanan" by Changampuzha is an elegy based on the life and death
Pastoral elegy then, the term elegy usually refers to a meditative poem of lamentation with no set metrical form. Examples of modern elegies include Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,” which reflects on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", which mourns humanity as a whole. Other examples include e e cumming's “my father moved through dooms of love,” John Peale Bishop's “Hours,” A E Housman's “To an Athlete Dying Young,” and W H Auden's “In Memory of W.B. Yeats." Pastoral poetry is a genre that typically relates to country/rural life and