First Year: From the life of the folk poet Ysinno

Lakdasa Wikkramasinha

·         Well known for being native in his poetry in both theme and style.

·         His use of language is essentially colored with local idiom.

·         His use of local expressions and idioms expresses his ideas and feelings which the readers get close to the poems.

From the life of the folk poet Ysinno

·         Wikkramasigha contrasts the poor, talented poet and the rich feudal lady, in the last stanza the contrast is made to heighten the goodness of the sympathetic lady. It is also possible to interpret the poem as fraught with many at the expense of feuded power. The Manike is not quick to grant the straw she had stacked in “the behind sled”

·         He uses the Sinhala syntax and idiom [“and to the manlike said how poor he was”, behind sled”] to get a folk touch in keeping with the subject of the poem.

·         The uses of word like Wallowa at Iddamalgoda, ‘fealties’, Manike’, dates back to the feuded times and color the poem with feuded notions.

·         The uses of direct translation of Sinhala expressions.

         “O the rains are coming near”

         “My woman fretting”

         “Her kid will get wet”