t it should be celebrated because it shows bodily functions. Within this poem it is obvious that Swift has no taboo words, and he shocked readers because he manifested that so clearly in this poem and others. Also, he was always so willing to bring so much at any rate of the physical into consciousness. A Beautiful Nymph Going to Bed is another poem that discusses the vital grossness of a females body. This poem also gained him much criticism. Aldous Huxley says that this poem is worse than the Yahoos of Gullivers Travels, Swifts poems about women are more ferocious even than his prose about the Yahoos; his resentment against women for being warm-blooded mammifers was incredibly bitter. And George Orwell describes it almost to that same account. Orwell describes A Beautiful Nymph Going to Bed as one of Swifts most characteristic works, and a prime example of how Swift falsifies his picture of the world by refusing to see anything in human life except dirt, folly and wickedness. These poem illustrate his wit, as his experiments with certain ideas and repeated phrases show. For example, Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia *censored*s! with only slight alterations appears in, The Ladys Dressing-Room, Cassinus and Peter, and Strephon and Chloe. In its context in each poem the line is more impressive and more shocked than shocking. It represents a part of Swifts attempt in poetry to state on of the fundamental moral and emotional problems of civilized people, though in this it is too specialized to succeed wholly (Johnson 502).The concluding line of A Beautiful Nymph Going to Bed, who sees, will spew; who smells be poisond can easily serve as the conclusion of The Ladys Dressing-Room, because the poems are so similar. They contain the same idea of a beautiful woman turned into a grotesque animal upon the observer becoming aware of the truth behind the ideal woman, as she appears to the public. Throughout the poem, Swift creates a vivid ima...
