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 Lilliputians tie Gulliver up so he cannot harm them. In order to capture Gulliver, they shoot arrows at him:.
"I heard one of them cry aloud, Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above an hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which pricked me like so many needles; and besides they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body (though I felt them not) and some on my face, which I immediately covered with my left hand. When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain; and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides - (2336; pt.