திணைக்கோட்பாட்டு நோக்கில் சக்தி ஜோதியின் “நிலம் புகும் சொற்கள்” கவிதைத் தொகுப்பு - ஓர் மீளாய்வு

Thinaikkotpattu nokkil Sakthi Jyothi’s "Nilam Pugum Sorkal" (Words that Enter the Land) Poetry Collection - A Review

Abstract

Sakthi Jothi’s poetry collection “Nilam Pugum Sorkal” offers a powerful reimagining of the Sangam literary Thinai tradition within a contemporary poetic framework. The classical Thinai concept, which expresses human emotions through the relationship between land and time, becomes a renewed artistic tool in her work. By continuing this ancient methodology, the modern Tamil woman poet binds the Thinai structure with the lived experiences of the female body, mind, and society, giving her poems a distinctive and relevant literary identity. The five landscape based emotions Kurinji, Mullai, Marutham, Neithal, and Paalai transform in her poetry into expressions of love, resistance, loneliness, sorrow, and the search for freedom, thereby functioning as powerful feminist voices. Through this transformation, natural imagery such as seasons, trees, time, and other Sangam literary symbols resonate with her personal experiences, creating a layered poetic effect. While the Sangam era Thinai dealt with land, time, and human emotions through nature’s reflection, Sakthi Jothi reinterprets these same elements by linking them to the psychological and social realities of women. Thus, each Thinai becomes a symbolic representation of feminist emotions like love, separation, waiting, opposition, and liberation. Natural symbols like rain, earth, trees, and night deepen the representation of feminine uniqueness. By embracing and simultaneously transcending the Sangam tradition, her poetry forges a new literary pathway for the modern female voice, expanding the potential of the Thinai framework from a feminist perspective.