Abstract:
Sri Lanka Tamil poetry has already seen the shift from
the traditional themes to the very modern ones and from the lyrical from
to the free verse. The themes like displacement, exile, death,
disfigurement, resistance, and alienation have found their ways into the
modern poems. The lyrical quality observed in Mahakavi, Murugian,
Neelavanan, Sanmugam Sivalingam and SOPA has not been followed by many a
new poet. While the new poets of the 80s and the 90s accommodated the new
themes that emerged after the way, the diaspora has found a new landscape
of the colder regions and added a sixth to the list of five thinai
categories. Thus, there seems to be a space for the marginalized exploited
by the new Tamil poets of the late 20th Century. The present study
attempts to see whether the poems included in the anthology titled Time
will Write a Song for you: Contemporary Tamil Writing from Sri Lanka
published by Penguin Books India in association with French Institute of
Pondicheri(2014) would open a new space for a cultural awakening.
