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A Satirical Elegy On The Death of A Late Famous General
A Satirical Elegy On The Death of A Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift
Many exclamatives
His
Grace! impossible! what dead!
satirical
Vocative mighty warrior highlight the
Of
old age too, and in his bed!
nature
of
the
poem
and his Grace! contrasts
And
could
that mighty warrior fall?
with the image presented
And so inglorious, after all!
to convey irony.