கலித்தொகையில் இயற்கை / Natural in Kalithogai

Abstract

Sangam Songs portray the lives of Sangam Tamil people who lived their lives very close to nature. They have given life and feeling to natural objects and sung in glory of them. The life in which nature and man lived together has been seen as an important one in the life of the Sangam age. Sangam literature is the living existence of Tamil culture and tradition. It portrays the heritage of the Tamil people. The Sangam poems are divided into internal (Agam) and external (Puram) songs. The individual life of the ancient Tamils can be clearly understood if we examine the poetry of the internal songs (Aga Padalgal). Among the internal song categories, “Kalithogai” is one of them. The speciality of “Kalithogai” is its fine portrayal of nature. The poets of the Sangam era sing about the existence of nature and the life of the people in their songs. They chose some natural phenomenal events that attracted them to life in their natural landscapes. They never sang which is useless for life. It enlivens the hearts of the ones who come across those songs and is a treasure of life for the degrading modern generation. Hence, an in-depth study has been made to evaluate the natural ecology present in the lines of “Kalithogai”.

Keywords

• kalithogai
• natural ecology
• sangam literature
• tamil life
• tamil culture.