S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room” as a reply to Jonathan Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room”, in which he describes a man’s first experience inside of a Lady’s dressing room. Swift describes in detail, the gross and embarrassing products, dirty clothes, and even the water closet of the lady’s room. The end result being the man, who once thought women to be goddesses, now finds them so disgusting that it ruined women for him entirely. Swift’s writing in The Lady’s Dressing Room is incredibly cruel. He even states, “such gaudy tulips raised from Dung” (line 145), explaining that he cannot believe something so disgusting came from something that is believed to be
S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room” as a reply to Jonathan Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room”, in which he describes a man’s first experience inside of a Lady’s dressing room. Swift describes in detail, the gross and embarrassing products, dirty clothes, and even the water closet of the lady’s room. The end result being the man, who once thought women to be goddesses, now finds them so disgusting that it ruined women for him entirely. Swift’s writing in The Lady’s Dressing Room is incredibly cruel. He even states, “such gaudy tulips raised from Dung” (line 145), explaining that he cannot believe something so disgusting came from something that is believed to be