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"A Description of a City Shower" takes the form of an urban pastoral, a type of mock pastoral that takes traditional rural scenes and transplants them to the city. The disconnect between the speaker's heightened Neoclassical vocabulary and his choice of grotesque, bawdy imagery leaves the poem's reader at an ironic distance.
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1667-1745 Jonathan Swift by Francis Bindon ยฉ National Portrait Gallery, London Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. He spent much of his early adult life in England before returning to Dublin to serve as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin for the last 30 years of his life.
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"A Description of a City Shower" (1710) Headnote The poem was first published in the Tatler, no. 238 (17 Oct. 1710) and was reprinted in Pope and Swift's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1711), Miscellanies. The Last Volume ('1727' for 1728), and in The Works of J.S., D.D. (1735). The text used here is based on Works (1735).
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Analysis of A Description of a City Shower Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) - 1745 (Ireland) Melancholy Nature War Careful Observers may fortel the Hour A (By sure Prognosticks) when to dread a Show'r: X While Rain depends, the pensive Cat gives o'er A Her Frolicks, and pursues her Tail no more. X Returning Home at Night, you'll find the Sink B
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'A Description of a City Shower' is a Horatian satire. Rather than a heavy, exceptionally pointed critique, Swift's poem is mainly a comedic description of London's filth and a light commentary.
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"A Description of a City Shower" is a 1710 poem by Anglo-Irish poet Jonathan Swift. First appearing in the Tatler magazine in October of that same year, the poem was considered his best poem. Swift agreed: "They think 'tis the best thing I ever wrote, and I think so too".
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While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er. Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Returning home at night, you'll find the sink. Strike your offended sense with double stink. If you be wise, then go not far to dine; You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in wine. A coming shower your shooting corns presage,
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" DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER" BY BRENDAN 0 HEHIR A paradox may be felt in the fact that Swift's " Description of a City Shower," while abiding the editors and anthologists of two and a half centuries, in effect at least continues to out-top the searching of critics. The text has been barnacled over with notes
EighteenthCentury Poetry Archive / Works / A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER. October, 1710
Introduction Jonathan Swift uses the commonplace occurrence of a brief rain to illustrate the various elements of London's urban scene in "A Description of a City Shower." Instead of showing how.
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He damns the climate, and complains of spleen. Meanwhile the South, rising with dabbled wings, A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling shower is borne aslope;
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A Description of a City Shower William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day, a series of four paintings, is said to have been inspired by "A Description of a City Shower", among other works. "A Description of a City Shower" is a 1710 poem by Anglo-Irish poet Jonathan Swift.
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A Description of a City Shower By Jonathan Swift Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a shower: While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Returning home at night, you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink.
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A Description of A City Shower by Jonathan Swift 1710 11th Grade Lexile: 1200 Font Size Untitled by MichaelGaida is licensed under CC0. [1] Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a shower: While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.