Thinaimozhi Aimpathu
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Thinaimozhi Aimpathu is a Tamil
poetic work belonging to the Pathinenkilkanakku
anthology of Tamil literature
. This belongs to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 100 – 500 CE. Thinaimozhi Aimpathu' contains fifty poems written by the poet Kannan Chenthanaar.
The poems of Thinaimozhi Aimpathu deal with the agam (internal) subjects. Agam in the Sangam literature
denotes the subject matters that deal with the intangibles of life such as human emotions, love, separation, lovers' quarrels, etc. The poems of Thinaimozhi Aimpathu are categoriesed into ten poems for each of the five thinai, or landscape
of Sangam poetry and describe in detail the situation and emotions specific to each landscape. The five landscapes of Sangam poetry are mullai – forest, kurinji – mountains, marutham – farmland, paalai – arid land and neithal – seashore.
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
poetic work belonging to the Pathinenkilkanakku
Pathinenkilkanakku
Pathinenkilkanakku is a collection of eighteen poetic works created during the 'post Sangam period' . The poems of this collection differ from the earlier works under the Pathinenmaelkanakku collection , which are the oldest surviving Tamil Poetry. The poems are written in the Venpa meter and are...
anthology of Tamil literature
Tamil literature
Tamil literature refers to the literature in the Tamil language. Tamil literature has a rich and long literary tradition spanning more than two thousand years. The oldest extant works show signs of maturity indicating an even longer period of evolution...
. This belongs to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 100 – 500 CE. Thinaimozhi Aimpathu' contains fifty poems written by the poet Kannan Chenthanaar.
The poems of Thinaimozhi Aimpathu deal with the agam (internal) subjects. Agam in the Sangam literature
Sangam literature
Sangam literature refers to a body of classical Tamil literature created between the years c. 600 BCE to 300 CE. This collection contains 2381 poems composed by 473 poets, some 102 of whom remain anonymous The period during which these poems were composed is commonly referred to as the Sangam...
denotes the subject matters that deal with the intangibles of life such as human emotions, love, separation, lovers' quarrels, etc. The poems of Thinaimozhi Aimpathu are categoriesed into ten poems for each of the five thinai, or landscape
Sangam landscape
The Sangam landscape is the name given to a poetic device that was characteristic of love poetry in classical Tamil Sangam literature. The core of the device was the categorisation of poems into different tiṇais or modes, depending on the nature, location, mood and type of relationship...
of Sangam poetry and describe in detail the situation and emotions specific to each landscape. The five landscapes of Sangam poetry are mullai – forest, kurinji – mountains, marutham – farmland, paalai – arid land and neithal – seashore.