Reading and rewriting poetry on life to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Issue 2 (3rd April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sharma, Daneshwar
• Is Part Of: Journal of poetry therapy. Volume 34:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 95
• Page End: 108
• Publication Date: 2021-04-03
• Subjects: Bibilio therapy -- Poetry therapy -- COVID-19 -- pandemic -- lockdown -- nature healing; Poetry -- Therapeutic use -- Periodicals; 615.8516
• DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2021.1899631
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0889-3675

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The pandemic COVID-19 has changed every aspect of human life. Lockdowns have halted the ever-throbbing heart of humanity. As we become prisoners in our homes, the age-old habit of looking at life, inside and outside, has changed. As humans, globally and collectively, suffered the zoo-like caging for the first time in the history of humankind, Nature, in the absence of her biggest polluter, started healing. After a long, rampant, unmindful industrialization era, animals, birds, fish felt free for the first time to roam around and reclaim their territory. In these troubled times, I look toward poetry as a means to understand the changes happening due to the pandemic. I see the pandemic crisis and its aftereffects from a personal point of view, as a father and as a working-class male, and from a social point of view as a human being.