Thomas Stokes Assignment 1

"They sit in the bright cafe, discussing Hemingway and how this war will change them." We get this one right off the bat. Ludvigson shows us this allusion to Hemingway. This demonstrates the depth of the poem because it shows us that Ludvigson is acknowledging the "Lost Generation." We can connect this to the later "They disagree about the American Dream" because the lost generation was a generation of Americans that disagreed pretty severely with the prior generation. This whole mindset contributes the poem because it lets us see that these people in the Diner are all worrying more about themselves than their country, which was a part of the disparity between these two generations.