Hi Chris – I like how you connect the past to the present via comedy and food, and I think that’s why I thought “The Lady’s Dressing Room” was not only amusing but also shocking. In most of my other English classes, I’ve almost only read canonical literature, and although Jonathan Swift is an academically accepted author, I think “appropriateness” i.e. politically correct, clean, modest, etc. is another stipulation of most of our assigned readings. With that in mind, even though I thought his poem was chauvinistically sexist (yes, that bad!), it was also hilarious and quite refreshing since it’s so vulgarly different from standard academic literature.
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19 DecHi Chris – I like how you connect the past to the present via comedy and food, and I think that’s why I thought “The Lady’s Dressing Room” was not only amusing but also shocking. In most of my other English classes, I’ve almost only read canonical literature, and although Jonathan Swift is an academically accepted author, I think “appropriateness” i.e. politically correct, clean, modest, etc. is another stipulation of most of our assigned readings. With that in mind, even though I thought his poem was chauvinistically sexist (yes, that bad!), it was also hilarious and quite refreshing since it’s so vulgarly different from standard academic literature.
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