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Cape Comorin Publisher, 2020

Cape Comorin Publisher , 2020

The present compilation Volume further puts emphasis on the various experiences of the pandemic. 50 poems seek to understand humanity’s actions and re-actions vis à vis the pandemic. With every poem, there are feelings, experiences, and lessons put forth for mankind to remember, to learn, and to employ in a post pandemic era. Life as we used to know has been drastically altered: customs, traditions, and manners are no longer the same, yet the need and desire for life and creation will trigger hope in the reader.

Covid-19 Pandemic Poems Volume-I

Cape Comorin Publisher , 2020

In this Pandemic situation Cape Comorin Publisher plans to publish various Anthologies titled “Covid-19 Pandemic Poems”. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV and Volume V are planned to publish with Editors, Dr. R. S. Regin Silvest, Dr. John Charles Ryan, Dr. Morve Roshan K, Dr. Malini Ganapathy, M. L. Aara Mithilee, and Nikoleta Zampaki. Featuring poets from India, Indonesia, Australia, the United States, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and elsewhere, the anthology represents a significant literary response to the global contagion. The poems contained herein remind me that the stark separation between us, as imposed by COVID-19, need not become total. Particularly in an age of social media and online publishing, poetry allows us to reach out and reaffirm our common humanness.

Covid-19 Pandemic Poems Volume VI

Cape Comorin Publisher , 2020

Every day, people are losing jobs and income, with no way of knowing when normality will return. Small island nations, heavily dependent on tourism, have empty hotels and deserted beaches. Most of the countries announced full lockdown and partial lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us many important lessons. Although we cannot predict when they will arrive or their severity, future pandemics are inevitable. Some may be more serious than COVID-19 if they are caused by pathogens with higher transmissibility between humans or higher case-fatality rates. The importance of improved surveillance and transparency is paramount. It is essential to recognize potential pandemics early to allow prompt public health interventions when the population burden of disease is low. The physical distancing to limit transmission leads us to find new ways to remain productive and engage with each other remotely. In this Pandemic situation Cape Comorin Publisher plans to publish various Anthologies titled “Covid-19 Pandemic Poems”

Covid and the Art of Dying

Covid and the Art of Dying, 2020

What is there still to be said, about the Covid-19 pandemic and its multiple consequences? It seems that all aspects have been dealt with by governments and their advisers, the medical profession, scientists and journalists. And yet, it seems that one very important aspect is left aside. All attention is paid to the prevention of death, and, containing the spread of the virus through masks, tests, physical distancing, monitoring and confinement, not to forget the frenetic search for a vaccine. Death has been pushed to the fringes, kept far from everyday life and its preoccupations. And yet, the coronavirus epidemic confronts us with the fragility of man and the reality of our mortality. That is the bottom line of the whole pandemic. However, it strikes us that churches and individual Christians speak so little about facing death, about comforting, about coping with grief. Despite a plethora of material, aimed at helping churches and individual believers to respond to the pandemic crisis, there appears to be little focus, if any, on the theological – and missiological – implications that people can no longer ignore the possibility of death. It is these implications that we want to point out in this article

In Defiance of the Pandemic – The Poetic Word

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Throughout the centuries, if not millennia, pandemics have raked humanity, taking a huge toll each time, but then people managed somehow to pick up their previous activities and kept living, deeply shaped by the tragedy, but still, living. iii However, there were the dead, thousands, if not millions. And the grief, the mourning, the personal suffering, the huge questions, WHY? And, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE of it all? Love or religion did not help to prevent anything, death came and cut down so many people, good ones and bad ones, old and young, men and women, all races, all genders; the grim reaper has never made a difference; it's only the number that matters, the more the better, at least from death's perspective. We could almost rewrite human history as a history of suffering, of tears, or pain, and question the true nature of the creature we call homo sapiens. All founders of world religions have been deeply moved by this realization and have tried, more or less successfully, to come to terms with these almost quixotic questions. If we have to die anyway, why do we live? iv We only need to think of the Crusades, the Hundred Years' War, the Thirty-Years' War, World War I and II, the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan wars, the Biafra War, the Kosovo War, the civil war in Syria, the war between Saudi-Arabia and Yemen, and countless other conflicts, and could despair over the endless aggression and hostility in the name of this or that religion, ideology, political claims, or racist notion. It almost seems a miracle that humankind has not yet annihilated itself by now, especially in light of the nuclear threat since the Cold War, a threat that has not effectively been eliminated until today, irrespective of what poets might have said about it ever since the first explosion. Death and Poetry This horrible realization concerning the dominance of death was expressed monumentally in the famous Ackermann aus Böhmen (The Plowman from Bohemia) by the German-Czech writer

Pathos in the Poetry of COVID-19 Pandemic

Koshi Pravah: Multidisciplinary Peer Reviewed Journal

Poetry written during global pandemic of COVID-19 display pathos. The present article explores the use of pathos in four of the pandemic time poems. The study aims to unveil the predicament that the earth and humans endured during that time. For the analysis, theory of pathos has been taken as a tool. Pathos is one of the persuasive techniques that evokes the emotion of pity and sympathy to the audience or the readership on the suffering and sadness of the characters and the speakers of the rhetoric. This article also discusses vivid pictures of the pathetic state of the characters in the poems that is similar to the state of the entire humans who underwent it during pandemic. The present inquiry concludes that the poetry written during pandemic evokes the strong positive emotion of joy, excitement and hope, and the negative emotion of fear, sadness, agony and sympathy as well in the mind of the readers. Doing so, it establishes the close connection between the readership and the po...

Reading and rewriting poetry on life to survive the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Poetry Therapy

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.

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