Sangam poetry falls into two main categories: Akam, “interior” or love poetry, and Puram, “exterior” or heroic poetry. Sangam means an academy, though there is no evidence that the various poets in fact formed an academy, or for that matter any other organized group.
The above poems come from the various anthologies of Classical Tamil poetry that belong to the Sangam (Cankam) age, circa 200 B.C. (Note: The name of the poet, Sangam anthology’s name & verse number in the anthology are given after each poem above) (Teeypuripalangayirranaar, Narrinai 284, Paalai) My mind: "A job undone will bring disgrace Whose outlines are dark kuvalai blossoms, My heart says, "Go to her, unbind the thongs Then to hell with these townsfolk and their gossip! The women (in small groups and not so small) Like the white-black bands on the river1 s bank, In one hand, raised stick with flower- soft tip in the other)Īnd send back food her father offers, untouched She heeded not the bidding of nursemaids (gold pot Is just water in the winter-month of Thai,ĭisdaining even sweet white milk and honey, (Paalai paadiya Perungadungo, Kalittokai 11, Paalai) Money must be earned, ascetics must be fed,Īffording no protection for those who would cross. There are good omens: the house- lizard chirps, I shouted, "Mother! Look what he’s doing!" This rascal, oh my bright-bangled friend, Of generous slabs of meat and aaral fish, In stealthy nibbles, gobble up the millet, Willing neither to disturb this happy union, She who is doomed as bait for future hunts. The brother of the one you slew yesterday Yes, a shield and a stone to stave off the enemy, (Kudavaayil Kiirattanaar, Puranaanuuru 242)
You blossomed after Satthan of the strong spearĪlas, too late for the Ollaiyuur country, jasmine.
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