The ancient Malayalam poems dealt with beauty, nature and the imaginative world, the modern time poems are more in line with the social issues  that the modern man faces. The politics of the poems talks the new language of the present generation, said poet K Satchidanandan.

Attending the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, he opined that poems become more reader friendly when it addresses the discrimination that man faces. This humanising of poems can be termed as the politics of poems. The politics is not in the poems but in the minds of the readers, he added. 

Poet and journalist Prabha Varma joined the discussion stating that in the present age, everyone is called a poet, but in actual sense only those who upgrade the social and current issues through poetic language can be called a poet.

Satchidanandan said that from the time of Ezhuthachan to the modern times, poems are improved consistently and periodically. Indian poets have always questioned the existing fascist attitudes. Poems have adapted to the needs of the modern era, so has the Keralite poets.

According to him, it would help the poets to create unique works, if they know more than a language. He also said that the poets shouldn't be bound to write in a specific format and it should be decided  by the words itself. 

Prabha Varma said that poems get their beauty only if written in the metres and mode (Vritham) for the most enjoyment. He also expressed that the present day poets think that the ancient poets were using unnecessary synonyms, but in actual they have actually put deep thoughts into words.