18.TH CENTURY POETRY

This essay purports to take a close look into some of the poems of Swift and so to draw
a conclusion whether Swift has only in his mind to mock people because of their moral
perversities and shortcomings when he is writing his satire or,besides doing that,he also
tries to change things within the social framework of the society on the strenght of the
cutting effect of his satires.The poems which will be studied is ''Lady's Dressing Room''
and ''Verses on the death of Dr.Swift''.
Before commencing with the ambitious task of trying to figure out the hidden meaning
which lays behind hi…