Assignment task: One of the core tenets in the approach to the Midcentury Moderns is to read them as part of connected social and artistic networks. They are friends and students of other writers; they drink together and make toasts at each other's messy weddings. But they also have connections to writers from earlier periods. In the two poems below demonstrate the ways their works are in conversation with one another. Good answers will focus on specific poems and stories rather than broad trends.
Must be 250 words.
Reference:
Sylvia Plath's, "Lady Lazarus
"The Hollow Men" by T.S. Elliot