I will divide my discussion into four parts: 1. ... One of the King's Cushions is here thought to represent the duchess of Kendal, mistress to the king, who helped Walpole back into favour in 1717. 3 Swift's critique of English politics reaches its climax in the conversation that takes place between Gulliver and the King of Brobdingnag. ... The last sentence really makes it clear to the reader that Swift is satirizing England's rule in Ireland. ... and the Court-Scandal ran for some time, that she once came privately to my lodging. ... And I should be guilty of great ingr...

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The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ... In my opinion winter represents the death of nature, but the difference is that nature regenerates, whereas human being only dies. ...

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