This is slightly late, but I did A (To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784. William Cowper) and B (Dante and the Lobster, Samuel Beckett). Won't go into much detail with my essay but some of my points were along the lines of:
- Human status vs the status of food, and how the food's status is liquefied across the two pieces relative to the status of the human(s) eating it; characters are either elevated or fight for their right to be on top, then taking the role of 'beast' from the food
- Attitude towards eating and towards the food during its 'pre-food status,' discussion of when food truly becomes food explored in the ways the extracts and characters within them choose to look back on the animal.
- Glee vs guilt and religious tones, how the life of the halibut is imagined in A compared to the reality of the human's life surrounded in decay exists in B.
Even if I don't get an interview, it was a lot of fun to write!