ENG305H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mary Leapor, Gruel, Facing Reality
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Individualism undermined, engaging in ridiculous delusion punishable by satire. Swift imagines own death, imagines how people talk about it. Line 459-460 malice never was his aim, he lashed the vice but spared the name . Crossing out lines because they"re too vain trying to create flattering image of self in satire against vanity . Censorship, printers putting stars and dashes in problematic lines. Reader hierarchy fill in blank with pamphlets/own guesses if friend of swift, can look at original manuscript, but it not, guess. Friends can"t be depended on to understand our pov and perspectives (pope misunderstood swift although close friend. Iambic tetrameter swift, 8 syllables resemble popular form of ballad, folksy, homey form, pedestrian and customary. Pope: 5 couplets make grand summary statements in form that"s expansive enough to be conclusive ( all join to guard what each desires to gain all kept in check by society, contained within the lines.
