Being alive with poetry: sustaining the self by writing poetry. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sharma, Daneshwar
• Is Part Of: Journal of poetry therapy. Volume 32:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 22
• Page End: 36
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Adolescence -- autobiographical poems -- death in the family -- poetry therapy -- self-therapy -- suicide -- qualitative research; Poetry -- Therapeutic use -- Periodicals; 615.8516
• DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2019.1548728
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0889-3675

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The adolescent experience of death of a family member can lead to depression and suicidal tendencies. The article explores this experience of the researcher as a teenager. In the qualitative research framework, the autobiographical poems are used as data. The artistic ways of processing the lived experiences and the subsequent emotions have become a vital part of qualitative research.