Poets of Circumstances: Love, Trauma and Death in Digital Poetry

Abstract

In this paper, I analyze the poems written in English by young, contemporary Kashmiri poets in an online platform called “The Kashmir Tales.” Through textual analysis of these intensely personal poems, I argue, that these poems show the effects of trauma in a highly mystical language. In order to demonstrate this relationship of the poems with trauma, I interpret two prominent and recurrent motifs in the poems – prisons and the interplay of love and death.

Keywords:

• Contemporary poetry
• Kashmir
• trauma
• mysticism
• digital poetry

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Veena Mani

Veena Mani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, Stella Maris College (Autonomous). Chennai, Tamil Nadu. India