You might have to accept allegorical instead of literal association—most often anyway (that's the case in any subject). If you break what you're asking down in

You might have to accept allegorical instead of literal association—most often anyway (that's the case in any subject). If you break what you're asking down into lower principles or themes, then poets have been writing about that throughout all of human history. If you want to see beauty in the mundane, the raw heart of a person experience life as it comes to them, or illustrations of a soul battered by the torrent of the world around it, (which seems to me like what you've described) then you have an immense amount of artwork to draw on, and I'll name three of my favourites: Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, David McFadden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Acorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Acorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McFadden_(poet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McFadden_(poet) You will be forced to associate with the writers on those themes in manners outside of the superficial aspects of your daily life, but that's more or less at the core of all art.