How Does Swift Respond To As Addressed By Strephon By Swift?

By analyzing this poem we as the reader are following Strephon a delusional young man as he gazes and rummages through the discarded soiled belongings and paraphernalia of his mistress, the Lady Celia’s empty chamber after she had spent five hours getting prepared for an evening out. Strephon who holds Celia on a pedestal and fantasies’ that he is her lover, gradually becomes disillusioned as he begins to discover that she like him is filthy as sifts through dirty clothes and underwear, snot covered handkerchiefs, jars full of spit, and cosmetics made from animal innards to name a few. The final straw is when he finds her used chamber pot to be repulsed by its contents “Disgusted Strephon stole away Repeating in his amorous Fits, Oh! Celia,
Swift is very explicit as he describes in great detail as Strephon not only uses his visual sense but also his sense of smell when looking at and smelling the contents of her chamber pot. Throughout the eleven stanzas Swift has chosen to use satire in order to illustrate how the typical gentleman’s view of a lady as a type of goddess was pure folly and illusion. Swift provides a somewhat basic synopsis in the opening few lines of ‘the lady’s dressing room’ about the amount of time it takes for Celia (and thus women in general) using everything available to her to insure that she achieves perfection so to be presentable for others to see and ‘smell’: “Five hours (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia in dressing…” (Line one, Stanza one, By Jonathan Swift, “The lady’s Dressing Room”). Ladies were considered to be consumed by vanity; they were almost expected to be vain “By haughty Celia…” (line 2, Stanza 1) in the eyes of gentlemen so women would always take the time to fulfil man’s female
Swift by using rhetoric to describe his filthy observations to his audience managed to get away with it, but only just; as at the time a number of reviewers were disgusted by the chamber pot content scene and the images they projected into the readers’ mind’s eye. However, all he was essentially saying was that male or female, we are all fundamentally the same as we all have and do the same bodily