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In difficult times, people turn to poetry, reading, and writing for solace and peace. In emotionally intense and traumatic times, people use poetry to process and understand the lived eyepieces. The havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the emotional and psychological well-being of individuals all across the world. Poetry has emerged as a savior in these difficult times. A phenomenon, "lockdown poems", came into existence as individuals all across the globe processed and shared their lived experiences of isolation, pain, and suffering through poems. In the present paper, students of a management program process and share their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent lockdowns, and their community work experience. Poetry as a therapeutic and hope-building tool is discussed in the paper along with the original poems written by the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PCK Prem has emerged as a major poet writing in the contemporary world of Indian English poetry. It is needless to say that he has secured his place not only as a contemporary poet but also as a contemporary critic. His book, English Poetry in India: A Comprehensive Survey of Trends and Thought Patterns (2011), from AuthorsPress, New Delhi has found favour with the critics and students of Indian English poetry. Though his latest book of poems is Rainbow at Sixty (2010), but in the present paper I attempt an exploration of his book, Enigmas of Identity, published about 21 years back in 1990, for the study of hope and beauty as manifest in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]