Bunyan, Swift and Pope

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 exhibit the human virtues while traveling

through forests, castles, and meeting dragons. However, The PilgrimÆs

Progress is indeed a progression form these works; until this point, these

allegories had been written as poems. Bunyan writes in prose, possibly

because he was not schooled in letters but in metalworking and wasnÆt

trained to shape his words the way previous writers had.

In fact, BunyanÆs style is very unique. While undertaking a similar task

that John Milton faced, that is, to make the basis of the Bible more

identifiable for the reader, Bunyan interlopes quotation from the Bible into

his prose. Its almost as if Bunyan had written a research paper and the

Bible was his data. From Vanity Fair: ôOne chanced mockingly, beholding the

within his own people, like using the Thames River as a source for drinking

education, IÆm sure that Bunyan was able to pick up a copy of the Comedy

Despond, he begins each with what he saw Now I saw, then I saw, So I saw.

Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod,

whether or not Hamlet was originally penned by Thomas Kyd and acquired by

Christianity. Alexander Pope is the first English writer to ôadmitö that

Call imperfection what thou fancyÆst such,

journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight

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