Comparing Benet And By The Waters Of Babylon

In the short story “By the Waters of Babylon” written by Stephen Vincent Benet there is a post apocalyptic setting where there is the aspect of the fear of the unknown. In The Guardian’s article about the bombing of Guernica, Spain, the reporter describes what they had witnessed when visiting the destroyed town. There was fire, ruin, death, and catastrophe interpreted in both writings. Is this a coincidence? I don’t believe this to be so because of the fact that they both deal with a lot of the same aspects of destruction and both were produced or occurred in the same year. The Guardian’s report on the catastrophe was published on April 28, 1937. The article speaks on the horrible deaths and events that were caused from the bombing. Hundreds