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Abstract
This essay examines war metaphors in Nigerian pandemic poetry in order to explore the representation of Covid-19 pandemic in selected Nigerian poems. The essay covers the poems of six Nigerian poets selected from World on the Brinks: an Anthology of Covid-19 Pandemic. The poets include Akachi Adimora-Eziegbo, Chidiebere Eniya, Law O. Mefor, Nnenna Vivien Chukwu, Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan and Maria Abiola Alege. The textual analytic method is employed to read the poems. Also, the formalistic theory is used to interpret the various metaphors employed by the poets. The findings are that several war metaphors are used to represent the scourge of the pandemic and that they are used to present efforts being deployed to combat the phenomenon. The essay concludes that Nigerian pandemic poets use war metaphors to frame health workers, humanity and coronavirus as combatants in the envisaged pandemic war.
