Define akam and puram poetry.

The contents of Akam and Puram poetry is located in terms of mutal – the first themes which are that of time and place, of karu – the seed theme that indicates the relationship between human beings and the world, and between society at large and uri – the essential theme that reflects the various phases of love and war. The mutal is further divided into Thinais. They are seven in number in both the Akam and the Puram. There are five akam thinais, also known as Aintinai, and are named after the local flora and fauna. In akam poetry, the Aintianis are: Kurinchi, Mullai, Marutam, Neytal andPalai. The other two Akam thinais, Kaikkilai (unrequited love) and Perunthinai (mismatched love or lust), are considered to be inappropriate subjects for poetry. Similarly, in puram poetry, six out of the seven thinais are named after flowers/trees and indicate military situations. S Murali points out that the categorisation of the environment into the thinais should be seen as “the earliest attempt by the Sangam poets towards the formulation of an environmental aesthetics, where the human bhava seeks its correspondence in the natural vibhava.”

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