“A Description of a City Shower” discusses the problems that occur when it rains in London. Each stanza describes a different part of the storm, starting from the very first signs going all the way to its effects on the people. The first 12 lines discuss the warning signs that a storm is approaching: cats stop chasing their tails and head for safety, and people’s old aches and pains start bothering them again. Those who are able take cover, while the rest hurry to go home.

The storm begins in lines 13-30. A man walks down the street in an effort to escape the storm while a careless woman dumps her bucket of dirty water out the window, onto the man. Once trying desperately to escape the foul weather, the man now finds himself dirty, wet and defeated. Lines 31-63 deal with the effects of the storm and what happens in the city. When Swift writes, “Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs / Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs” (41-42), he could be referring to them in two ways, one being an ideal view; where the two opposing political parties join together for once instead of letting their political views stand in their way. Another possibility, however, is that Swift views them as too materialistic and vain, being too concerned with their hairpieces to worry about important political issues. The poem then ends with all the city’s trash being swept into the open sewers in the streets, as Swift describes “Sweepings from butchers’ stalls, dung, guts, and blood, / Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud, / Dead cats, and turnip tops, come tumbling down the flood” (61-63). These three lines describe the dirtiness of the city, pointing out the negative aspects of London and showing that the city is dirty, poor, and not a glamorous place to live.

While “A Description of a City Shower” has its share of satire, Gulliver’s Travels has much more. Gulliver’s Travels is fictional travel literature: a story Swift made up in which the main character travels around the world and records his journey for people to read. Swift liked to portray someone other than himself when he wrote, so he really developed his characters and gave them a life of their own. Gulliver is a well-spoken Englishman who is well-mannered, intelligent, has good morals, and thinks deeply about the world around him. His journey begins when he is shipwrecked and lands on Lilliput and meets the six-inch-tall people who inhabit the country. Even though Gulliver is what humans would consider a normal height, the Lilliputians see him as a giant because he is so much bigger, and they treat him with great care. To ensure their own safety, the

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