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A GROSS FORM OF DELIGHTFUL SATIRE

ge using precise details. The young Corrina is viewed as a machine and not human, and her bedroom is her factory that shuts down when she goes to bed. The image of Corrina taking off her wig and removing her eye-brows, glass eye, and false teeth is very lively and comical because of all of these parts are detachable-like a machine. Then, Corrina delicately places all of the items so that she may lie down for restNow, picking out a Crystal Eye,She wipes it clean, and lays it by.Her Eye-Brows from a Mouses Hide,Stuck on with Art on either Side,Pulls off with Care, and first displays em,Then in a Play-Book smoothly lays em.The observer is not as obvious as Strephon in The Ladys Dressing-Room; nevertheless, the same principals apply. Celia waking to find her factory destroyed-the crystal eye is gone, a rat has stolen the plaster, and all the other parts are a mess-is an symbol of man finding out about her personal functions and having his divine image of her immortality is destroyed. According to Denis Donoghue, Strephons in The Ladys Dressing-Room and Cassinus in Cassinus and Peter problem comes from failure to use common sense before he had the chance to involve his passions (307). Donoghue says that they did not take that opportunity and now it is too late (307), as opposed to Peter who is a sensible man that never runs to extremes. Now upon knowing that the fact woman is not a goddess and that they have loved an image, thus their emotions collide with their passions; they turn its force into disgust and hatred. Strephon and Cassinus hate Celia; thus, they hate all women. Peter is thinking that Celia has been killed or caught small pox, Is Celia dead?/ Has she contracted the small or greater pox? But it is neither, in fact, Cassinus is idealistically nave by believing that Celia was not capable of a necessary human bodily function. In these poems the male lovers of the women did not take the first opportunity of modifying thei...

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