1966. She says,
“My mother scolds me.
The calling of the andril bird makes me sick with love.
The waves of the ocean roar and my bangles grow loose.
These things have happened
only since I fell in love with the beloved of Nappinnai
whose waist is adorned with golden clothes and who walks softly like a swan
with hair decorated with beautiful flowers. ”
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate poetry to prose conversion (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continiously to form the sentence and understand the simple meaning of those verse.)