and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read through the lens of that pandemic. But strikingly few poems make it a focal point, or even mention it. COVID was different in many crucial ways. It ...
Poems are a fun way to help us think about things like plastic waste. Poets use rhyming and alliteration to catch our attention when we read or hear a poem. To dump it and hide it seems very wrong.