Psychological Elements in Sangam Inner Poems

சங்க அகப்பாடல்களில் உளவியல் கூறுகள்

Abstract

The Sangam period is called a golden age. The literature that emerged during that era and psychology, a field that developed in later periods, have a very close relationship with each other. Since Sangam literature is founded on life experiences, psychological elements can be observed in abundance within it. The akam and puram genre poems are structured as reflections of mental states that arose from the complexities encountered in life. The subject matter of akam poems takes as its content either a particular mental state or the situation corresponding to that mental state.