imation is still possible. In this quote the second guessing is apparent, Should I the Queen of Love refuse,/ Because she rose from stinking ooze? (131-32). The poem ends with a return to the narrator giving consolation to Strephon and tries to reconcile with Strephon what he has seenHe soon would learn to think like me,And bless his ravisht Sight to seeSuch Order from Confusion sprung,Such gaudy Tulips raisd from Dung. (141-45)The narrator is saying that Strephon must meet Celia at the middle, if Celia looks like a goddess then that is good enough for him to treat her like a goddess.Some people have a natural gift with words, using them to initiate and enforce new ideas, Swift was truly one of these people. It is true that the literary quality of a book is to some small extent separable from its subject-matter. Swift writes from the point-of-view that he can and will say anything he pleases. And because of this, in his writings probably lies the most remarkable expression of negative feelings and attitudes that literature can offer. What else can you expect for a man that proposed seasoning and eating babies, sacrificing first borns, and using young children for leather boots, and gloves as he does in his short essay, A Modest Proposal? Using children for these goods is by no means modest. Nevertheless, Swift submits this piece under the title of modest. Its almost like Swift wants to gain that sort of attention because of the pretentious attitudes of writers that wrote during his same time period. Despite all of the criticism that Swift has received, Gullivers Travels is still a very popular read in British Literature classes. His obscene and vulgar poems now provide a grimy; yet, comical and light-hearted read. Studying Jonathan Swifts writings help to understand the period which he was writing and the subjects that were generally written about. Because his descriptions are so detailed, and the imagery is so deep, Jonath...
