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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