Impak Pandemik COVID-19 dalam Penulisan Puisi di Malaysia

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Poetry Writing in Malaysia

Abstract

Saranan daripada kerajaan untuk sentiasa kekal berada di rumah (Just stay at home) bagi mengekang penularan jangkitan pandemik COVID-19 dalam tempoh beberapa bulan menjadi satu titik tolak kepada lahirnya karya-karya sastera khususnya puisi tentang COVID-19 di Malaysia. Puisi-puisi ini bukan sahaja ditulis oleh golongan pengarang yang berkecimpung dalam bidang kesusasteraan, tetapi juga ditulis oleh golongan masyarakat yang cukup terkesan dengan pandemik ini. Justeru, makalah ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti isu-isu tentang pandemik COVID-19 dan menganalisis impak pandemik ini terhadap kehidupan manusia sebagaimana yang tergambar dalam kumpulan puisi atau antologi puisi tentang COVID-19 yang terbit pada tahun 2020. Kajian ini ialah kajian kualitatif yang melibatkan kaedah kepustakaan, analisis kandungan dan analisis deskriptif terhadap kumpulan puisi/antologi puisi tentang COVID-19. Hasil kajian mendapati, isu-isu tentang COVID-19 telah mendapat tempat dalam kalangan penyair dan masyarakat seterusnya merancakkan lagi aktiviti sastera ketika dunia sedang berdepan dengan pandemik ini. Para penyair telah berjaya mengungkapkan impak pandemik COVID-19 terhadap kehidupan masyarakat sama ada dalam aspek psikologi, sosial, agama, budaya, pendidikan, kesihatan dan ekonomi. Oleh hal yang demikian, penerbitan kumpulan puisi atau antologi puisi COVID-19 ini dapat menjadi rujukan penting pada masa yang akan datang kerana berjaya merakam pelbagai peristiwa pahit getir yang dilalui masyarakat akibat pandemik COVID-19.

The suggestion from the government to just stay at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus infection became a starting point for the emergence of literary works, especially poetry about COVID-19 in Malaysia. These poems were not only written by a group of authors who established in the field of literature but also written by a group of people who were quite affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thus, this paper aims to identify issues about covid-19 pandemic and analyze the impact of this pandemic on human life as depicted in a collection of poems or poetry anthologies about covid-19 that published in 2020. The study was conducted using qualitative mods that involve a literature review, content analysis, and descriptive analysis to expound the collection of poems/ poetry anthologies about COVID-19.This study showed that the issues of COVID-19 have found a place among poets and society, further boosting literary activities when the world is facing this pandemic. The poets have successfully expressed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life of the community whether in the term of psychological, social, religious, cultural, educational, health and economic aspects. Essentially, the publication of this collection of poems or an anthology of poems COVID-19 can be an important reference in the future because it successfully records the various bitter events that society went through as consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Keywords: malay poetry; COVID-19 pandemic; movement control order; literature