Short Poetry and Prose con.

Well, it seems we have a gross out competition taking place within the readings. I have just finished reading “The Gentleman’s Study” by Miss W- and it compares to Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room” on the gross out scale. “The Gentleman’s Study” features a curious character, in this case a woman, who enters a room of a noble man named Strephon and curiously pokes around. In the beginning of the poem the narrator claims that Strephon is “More nasty than the nastiest beast” (Miss W). In his study she finds nasty wigs, dirty towels, medicines for various sexual diseases, and even witnesses a rendezvous between Strephon and his valet Tom. This poem seems to be retaliation against Swift’s poem, and suggests that men are not always what they appear to be as well.

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