Jonathan Swift was a satirist and essayist. He also wrote poetry and worked as an Anglican cleric. He’s remembered for A Tale of Tub and A Modest Proposal. Furthermore, he’s regarded as one of the best English satirists, using a deadpan, ironic style of writing. To this day, his satire is enjoyed by a wide audience.
‘A Description of the Morning’ by Jonathan Swift describes the various events happening one morning in London’s West End in the early 1700s.
Now hardly here and there a hackney-coach
Appearing, show'd the ruddy morn's approach.
Now Betty from her master's bed had flown,
And softly stole to discompose her own.
‘A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General’ critiques the Duke of Marlborough’s legacy with imagery of an unmissed death.
His Grace! impossible! what dead!
Of old age too, and in his bed!
And could that mighty warrior fall?
And so inglorious, after all!
Jonathan Swift’s acerbic poem ‘On the Day of Judgment’ is about a speaker’s vision of the judgment day with Jove or Jupiter giving his final ruling on humankind’s offenses.
With a whirl of thought oppress’d,
I sunk from reverie to rest.
A horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead!
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