but "a frailer part". He feels that he is in a fallen state, and that therefore there is a gap between human experience and perfect experience that he will never be able to bridge because of the fallen state he is in. Even when he is being coarse, he displays a gloomy sense of human existence. This does not become apparent until the poem is examined more closely. It seems the poem is more personal to Rochester, and concerns his own fears of inadequacies rather than the situation in the world at the time. This gloomy sense of existence remains in his satires and lampoons, but the obscenity depicting Rochester's disquiet with the world at large becomes more of an issue in a later poem - A Satyr on Charles II. The title is self evident, but the reasons for Rochester writing it are more complex. Rochester was supported by a pension from the king, but despite this, he still wants to make his vies known, if not to the king, then at least to his closest friends. The fact that he relied on Charles II for monetary needs (his) makes the fact that he was dissatisfied all the more apparent. It is obvious from the poem that he feels the king is not a good statesman, that in fact his "...prick, like thy buffoons at Court, Will govern thee because it makes thee sport." (A Satyr on Charles II: 14 -15)He takes the idea of the king being led by his penis rather than his skills as a monarch further later in the poem:"'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive,The proudest peremptoriest prick alive...Restlessly he rolls about from whore to whore,A merry monarch, scandalous and poor."(A Satyr on Charles II: 16-17, 20-21)Rochester is being obscene because it emphasises the way he feels the king is behaving - that he is wasting his time on prostitutes and good living instead of concentrating on his conflict with Louis XIV. It gives the effect that perhaps he was looking for - it is shocking to think of one's monarch in terms of a Casanova type charact...
