A Description of a City Shower by Jonathan Swift | Poetry Foundation
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Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud,. Dead cats, and turnip tops, come tumbling down the flood.
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Headnote The poem was first published in the Tatler, no. 238 (17 Oct. 1710) and was reprinted in Pope and Swift's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1711), ...
In "A Description of a City Shower", Swift dramatizes moral evil by describing a form of chaos created by the fall of rain and by depicting the reaction of the ...