Jeyamohan, commenting on this poem in his ‘Sanga Chitirangal’, says that more than the bitterness apparent throughout the poem, what makes him sad, is the fact that the poem is addressed to the gatekeeper. The people who have the access to the top need not always be the most skilled or the most talented. This is what lot of us experience in various companies. But experience teaches you otherwise and reading the poem through your life will make it seem as something else.Īvvai knows that she is more talented than othersbut the gates seem to remain open only to those who praise the king !!! As we wonder how someone with so little talent can occupy an exalted position in a company, Avvai is also pretty much fed up with such people having access to the very top. We can probably do that in textbooks to show children how poets of those times were very particular about their self respect etc. It is very easy to read this as a rejection of the way of life, wherein the poet had to constantly praise the king. A lot of poetry in Purananuru is in praise of the kings and chieftans of those days. During those times it was very common for real or imagined poets to sing the praise of the king in order to obtain gifts from him. Neduman Anji was a chieftan who was very close to Avvaiyar. Here is the translation (translation mine.)
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