In “A Modest Proposal,” Jonathan Swift has a suggestion for preventing children of poor Irish families from becoming a burden and becoming beneficial to the public; his suggestion includes fattening up the malnourished children to feed to rich landowners and selling poor children from the age of one to a meat market for later consumption. Swift seems to have thoroughly thought this plan through; however, by saying, “I can think of no one objection that will possibly be raised against this proposal” (Swift 319), he makes it sound as if he wants you to agree with his opinion and not even consider questioning his plan; Swift seems as if he wants everyone to accept everything he says rather than thinking critically for themselves.
The purpose of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man was to logically justify the ways of God to man. One point made by Pope was that one man cannot judge another man, but men can be judged only by God; “What can we reason, but from what we know” (Pope 345). Essentially, this means that we can try to judge some, but if you do not have all the facts, you cannot accurately judge a satiation; …show more content…
John Keats’ “To Autumn” creates a typical image of autumn. His first stanza describes, “all fruit with ripeness to the core” (Keats 414). The second stanza primarily discusses the grain that has been harvested. Lastly, the third stanza refers to autumn as a musician, by providing the imagery of, “a choir of gnats” (Keats 415) and “gathering swallows twitter in the skies” (Keats 415). Percy Shelley’s “Ode to the Wild West” discusses things that occur on their own in nature. The “wild West Wind” of autumn blows the dead leaves and distributes seeds so that they are able to grow in the spring; in this scenario, the wind is a “destroyer and preserver,” because although it causes the leaves to fall every autumn, it creates new life every
The purpose of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man was to logically justify the ways of God to man. One point made by Pope was that one man cannot judge another man, but men can be judged only by God; “What can we reason, but from what we know” (Pope 345). Essentially, this means that we can try to judge some, but if you do not have all the facts, you cannot accurately judge a satiation; …show more content…
John Keats’ “To Autumn” creates a typical image of autumn. His first stanza describes, “all fruit with ripeness to the core” (Keats 414). The second stanza primarily discusses the grain that has been harvested. Lastly, the third stanza refers to autumn as a musician, by providing the imagery of, “a choir of gnats” (Keats 415) and “gathering swallows twitter in the skies” (Keats 415). Percy Shelley’s “Ode to the Wild West” discusses things that occur on their own in nature. The “wild West Wind” of autumn blows the dead leaves and distributes seeds so that they are able to grow in the spring; in this scenario, the wind is a “destroyer and preserver,” because although it causes the leaves to fall every autumn, it creates new life every