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Bunyan, Swift, and Pope
Title: Bunyan, Swift, and Pope
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1744 | Pages: 7.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bunyan, Swift, and Pope
The Last of the half
Grant Kohler
John Bunyan was not the first to write a significant work on the
metaphorical journey of life. The story of a man traveling through familiar
alien territory while meeting strange people and places has transcended all
ages of literature. HomerÆs Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus return from
the Trojan War, DanteÆs Comedy is the journey thought the 3 realms of the
afterlife, SpenserÆs Faerie Queen …showed first 75 words of 1744 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1744 total…gives us giants and lands akin to the Homeric locales.
Pope, with his lethal rhymed couplets, gives us the imaginary journey
created within ourselves to piece together. All three essentially tell us,
not just the readers but also our human race, that things could be better if
we were not so selfish. If we act with reason and without pride, then, and
only then, can a state of Heaven like the Biblical one, be reached.
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