Bunyan, Swift, and Pope

k up a copy of the Comedy
             somewhere and learn to mimic it. Its obvious with the first line of the
             poem, ÔAs I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a
             certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep;ö
             which sounds a lot like the first line of Inferno, ÔIn the middle of the
             journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight
             way was lostâI was so full of sleep at that moment.ö Bunyan also includes a
             sin-city and a river of death, with a ferryman who transports Ignorance
             over. Their original names were Dis, Styx, and Charon.
             Of all the writers of the Neoclassic era, Swift is my favorite. He writes
             about human behavior, religion, politics, and other forms sociology while
             filling the office of them. Swift was a chaplain of Berkeley, a Whig turned
             Torrie, and the dean of St. PatrickÆs Cathedral amongst many other titles.
             Swift served these positions with great duty, yet he writes about the
             corruption of such positions. To me, swift is a guerilla fighter in the
             Neo-classical battlefield. No, heÆs more like a mob inform
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