I’m working on a literature discussion question and need an explanation to help me study.
Writing Prompt: Choose one work from any of the poets or authors: Eliot, Auden, Hughes, or Hurston. For your mini-essay post, explain why people today can relate to the poem or short story.
Read “Two Songs for Hedli Anderson” on the National Public Radio website:
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/poetry/aude.html
Read T. S. Eliot’s “Hollow Men”: http://allpoetry.com/The-Hollow-Men
Read “Sweat” in Wall’s book on Google Books. Scroll down to the table of contents for a link to the story that starts on page 25: http://books.google.com/books?id=N8SMTD4ZWP8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
