This posts explores various themes in love poems of Sangam literature and presents few movie situations which are very similar to these themes.
Akanaanuru 110
If mother finds out,let her.
And if this lovely little street with its loose mouths hears,let it.
Before the god at Pukar with whirlpools,
I swear this is all that happened.
In the grove,I and my garlanded friends played in the sea,
made little houses and heaped up play rice.
Then we were resting a bit,
waiting for our tiredness to go,
when a man came up and said,
"Innocent girls with round,soft arms as supple as bamboo!
The light of the sun has faded and I am tired.
Would there be anything wrong if I ate a guest's meal
on a soft,open leaf,
and then stayed in your noisy little village?"
Seeing him, we lowered our faces,
and,hiding ourselves,we politely replied,
"This food is not for you.
It is moist fish,eaten only by low people."
Then suddenly some one said,
"There,can't we see the boats coming in
with their tall, waving banners?"
At that we kicked over our sand houses with our feet,
Of all those who were leaving,
he looked straight at me and said,
"O you who have the lovely face, may I go?"
so I felt I had ruined.
I answered, "You may,"
and he,staring at me all the while,
stood tall,holding the staff of his chariot.
Still it seems to be before my eyes.
Poet: Pontaip Pacalaiyar
Translated by George L Hart
As I said before the poem has multiple themes. The first one being the gossip theme which has been elaborately discussed in one of my previous blogs. The second theme being the first meeting of the hero and heroine. Third theme is flirtation of the hero and the final theme being Rich boy - Poor Girl love theme.