Different Responses of Indian People and COVID-19 Trauma in a Selection of Indian Poetry Written in English

This article reflects different responses of the Indian people during COVID-19 trauma in COVID-19 Pandemic Poems. The analysis runs in accordance with trauma theory. The researcher’s methodology is analyzing COVID-19 Pandemic Poems using trauma theory. The paper highlights COVID-19 as seen from three different points of view throughout COVID-19 Pandemic Poems. Some traumatized people regard the pandemic as a villain which is responsible for killing people. They have the feeling of survivor’s guilt. Some Indians feel helpless and powerless. They suffer in silence. Others regard COVID-19 as a tool of unity and awareness, in fighting the disease. Moreover, some have a neutral view that COVID-19 is a double-edged weapon. For those, the pandemic has good as well as bad consequences. The three different views show the importance of poetry as a medium of communication. Poetry usually motivates the reader to feel empathy, therefore it leads to the unity of humankind. So, literature is a mirror of society and its problems. Through art, the traumatized may explore his nature. He \She may explore the outer traumatic world. The traumatized gains knowledge about the suffering of the victimized and how far this suffering is evident in real life. Thus, literature is a way of spreading awareness about different problems that can be found in real life. There is a strong association between literature and psychology since both deal with human interactions, feelings, thoughts, desires, miseries, fears, and motives.