Coronavirus Apocalypse: A Representation of Despair and Resilience

This paper explores Mathias Besong’s My Struggle with COVID-19 (2020), Nikita Gill’s Love in the Time of Coronavirus and Elizabeth Mitchell’s The Doctor Apocalypse (2020) focusses on how these poems illustrate authors’ reactions to spread coronavirus. Therefore, it engages genre theory argues that examined verse adopts features themes post-apocalyptic literature. research employs a comparative approach divides into three categories: poetry despair, hope, ambivalent depicts responses pandemic inconsistently. study shows explored express contradictions between social distancing, physical isolation, global connectedness oneness. scrutinizes concept survival examines coronavirus survivors as significant elements genre. debates human distress are universal. It also draws attention effectiveness writing aspire achieve solidarity, challenge fear hardships. demonstrates impacts Covid-19 becomes means expresses hope through its employment conventions tropes. Finally, researcher suggests poets depict their anxieties psychological distress; however, they overlook illustrating pain associated contributes ongoing scholarly discussions focus selected produced during context sheds light genre, conventions,