ve existed in the poems. Also it can be concluded that the use of obscenity was often motivated by disquiet with certain situations at the time, as can be seen from his comments about the king and some of the members in his court, but again this was not always the case. Occasionally his bawdy language was used in poems that mimicked the style of some very early poets such as Homer and Ovid, which may explain his views concerning women. An example of this comes out in A Letter From Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country, where he talks about the vanity of women and their "silly sex!" who "turn gypsies for a meaner liberty". However, because of the way he deals with the poem about Cloris for example, it is not easy to interpret it as a satirical parody on the epic, as it lends itself more towards being simply a rude poem about a woman who takes care of pigs. This is not entirely successful, but the poems can be taken for what they are if the lewd contents are accepted as part of Rochester's style, and the poems are read taking that into account....
