Techniques in Tamil Haiku Poetry

Abstract

Tamil haiku poems are characterized by the unique characteristics of expressing the feelings, such as mild sadness, mild humor, it have only three lines, it is very simple, it has emphasis on all life, it resembles the nature of lightning in a vortex system and it also express innermost feelings.  Symposium itself has given the boom to Tamil poetry which everyone desires. However, the metaphor technique, irony technique, symbolic technique, question answer technique, narrative technique, title technique, component technique, myth technique, criticism technique, pun technique, figurative variety technique, dark technique, are studied well in this type of poetry. These kind of techniques popularised the Tamil Haiku poems. Tamil haiku poems are written in a question-and-answer format, with present-day justice, matching the justices found in old mythological and epic stories, and criticizing contemporary political and social justice. With such types of Tamil poems, the poet's opinion is revealed in a subtle way, and the value and beauty of the Tamil language is enhanced.