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Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking" contain imagery that engages... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines... read full definition
Book 2, Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Disgust:
At several points throughout Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift makes use of visual, tactile, and olfactory imagery to emphasize the grotesqueness of the human body and advance the novel's theme of relative perspective.
In Book 2, Chapter 1, Gulliver is disgusted to witness the Brobdingnagian farmer's wife nurse her infant and describes her skin as being covered with freckles, pimples, and other imperfections. He acknowledges that the woman's skin is only disgusting to him because it is so much enlarged compared to his own, an observation that leads Gulliver to reevaluate his perspective on beauty:
This made me reflect upon the fair Skins of our English Ladies, who appear so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their Defects not to be seen but through a Magnifying Glass, where we find by Experiment that the smoothest and whitest Skins look rough and coarse, and ill-coloured.
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Book 2, Chapter 5
Explanation and Analysis—Disgust:
At several points throughout Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift makes use of visual, tactile, and olfactory imagery to emphasize the grotesqueness of the human body and advance the novel's theme of relative perspective.
In Book 2, Chapter 1, Gulliver is disgusted to witness the Brobdingnagian farmer's wife nurse her infant and describes her skin as being covered with freckles, pimples, and other imperfections. He acknowledges that the woman's skin is only disgusting to him because it is so much enlarged compared to his own, an observation that leads Gulliver to reevaluate his perspective on beauty:
Unlock with LitCharts A+This made me reflect upon the fair Skins of our English Ladies, who appear so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their Defects not to be seen but through a Magnifying Glass, where we find by Experiment that the smoothest and whitest Skins look rough and coarse, and ill-coloured.
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Book 4, Chapter 8
Explanation and Analysis—Disgust:
At several points throughout Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift makes use of visual, tactile, and olfactory imagery to emphasize the grotesqueness of the human body and advance the novel's theme of relative perspective.
In Book 2, Chapter 1, Gulliver is disgusted to witness the Brobdingnagian farmer's wife nurse her infant and describes her skin as being covered with freckles, pimples, and other imperfections. He acknowledges that the woman's skin is only disgusting to him because it is so much enlarged compared to his own, an observation that leads Gulliver to reevaluate his perspective on beauty:
Unlock with LitCharts A+This made me reflect upon the fair Skins of our English Ladies, who appear so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their Defects not to be seen but through a Magnifying Glass, where we find by Experiment that the smoothest and whitest Skins look rough and coarse, and ill-coloured.
Related Themes:
