A Modest Prosal By Jonathon Swift
The Styles of Writing
The art of writing has been one of the greatest steps towards the unification and advancing of species. It allows us to travel through worlds by opening a book and reading it with an open mind. There have been many trends in writing which have been affected by the social norms of that time. Writing has always been a constant and even if there has been a recent decline in terms of creativity; especially since 2016 has been the year of the sequels. As a writer, it is interesting to see just how a writing style can be influenced by writers before who made periods such as the Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, and Romanticism. There is also a special homage of respect to these cornerstones of these particular styles. There are three authors that had quite a hand in these three separate and distinct periods of writing. When the writer Jonathon Swift wrote A Modest Proposal; there are defining characteristics that are evident of the Enlightenment period of writing. A Modest Proposal is satire above others, the overall message was pointed and scathing about the deprivation of the Dublin, Ireland. There were suggestions that ranged near insane such as, "Such methods included, " 13 and Fortune, through the Kingdom, always advising the Mother to let them Suck …show more content…
The idea of love has always been associated with flowers, women, and sex. Baudelaire distorts this image by descriptions such as, "Her legs spread out like a lecherous whore … Her stinking and festering womb" (Baudelaire 5). This woman is a symbol of love gone awry which is an emotional landmine for the readers because very few people have not experienced a relationship gone bad. Romanticism relies of touching the emotions of its readers. Baudelaire relies on appealing to the carnal side of humanity in order to get across to the
The art of writing has been one of the greatest steps towards the unification and advancing of species. It allows us to travel through worlds by opening a book and reading it with an open mind. There have been many trends in writing which have been affected by the social norms of that time. Writing has always been a constant and even if there has been a recent decline in terms of creativity; especially since 2016 has been the year of the sequels. As a writer, it is interesting to see just how a writing style can be influenced by writers before who made periods such as the Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, and Romanticism. There is also a special homage of respect to these cornerstones of these particular styles. There are three authors that had quite a hand in these three separate and distinct periods of writing. When the writer Jonathon Swift wrote A Modest Proposal; there are defining characteristics that are evident of the Enlightenment period of writing. A Modest Proposal is satire above others, the overall message was pointed and scathing about the deprivation of the Dublin, Ireland. There were suggestions that ranged near insane such as, "Such methods included, " 13 and Fortune, through the Kingdom, always advising the Mother to let them Suck …show more content…
The idea of love has always been associated with flowers, women, and sex. Baudelaire distorts this image by descriptions such as, "Her legs spread out like a lecherous whore … Her stinking and festering womb" (Baudelaire 5). This woman is a symbol of love gone awry which is an emotional landmine for the readers because very few people have not experienced a relationship gone bad. Romanticism relies of touching the emotions of its readers. Baudelaire relies on appealing to the carnal side of humanity in order to get across to the