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
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