Poet Na.Muthukumar Women in the Poems of the First Pest Seller

கவிஞர் நா.முத்துக்குமார் பட்டாம் பூச்சி விற்பவன் கவிதைகளில் பெண்கள்

Abstract

In modern Tamil poetry, where the feminist perspective has emerged as an important research field, Na.Muthukumar’s poems are important documents that deeply record the life experiences of women. In Na.Muthukumar’s poems, the woman is presented not only as an object of beauty or a flame of sacrifice, but also as a complete human identity with feelings and thoughts. This study examines how women are portrayed in the poems of poet N. Muthukumar from a biological and sociological perspective. Furthermore, she is shown as a living being operating within family and social structures. Along with traditional traits such as affection, love, and sacrifice, women’s loneliness, heartache, silence, and social barriers are also recorded in her poems. This study explains how women’s experiences become the biological realities of modern Tamil society through a content analysis of the selected poetry collection of poet N. Muthukumar, ‘Pattam Poochee Virbhavan’. It also indicates that these poems are a document that allows today’s generation of readers to know the experiences of women in society that are unknown. The aim of this study is to find out whether N. Muthukumar’s poems are established as an important literature that integrates female identity, social memory, and cultural records.