Representation of Thai society in the situation of the Covid-19 crisis through poetry (2019-2022)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the representation of Thai society in the COVID-19 crisis situation through selecting passages from poetry written during the year 2019-2022, total of 285 works. The results of the study found that the representative images were divided into 3 parts as follows: 1. Representative images of urban society, including images of a lonely, deserted city without people, images representing the closure/termination of places. Business, images representing economic failure, images representing failed state administration. and images representing injustice in society in the midst of a crisis. 2. Images representing people in society, including images representing fighting for life in the midst of a crisis, images representing loneliness in society, images representing doctors and nurses as heroes from hard work, images representing illness. and the death of many people, images representing the hope of people in society, images representing help and sharing between people in society, and images representing ways of doing things in the COVID era. 3. Images representing nature in the midst of crisis, including images representing nature helping to heal. Distress, images representing COVID as a natural disaster, images representing nature's restoration and images representing the uncertainty of nature.