Question 24
PART B: Which of the following best supports the answer to Part A?
"But what of that, his friends may say, / He had those honours in his day." (Lines
21-22)
"This world he cumbered long enough; / He burnt his candle to the snuff; / And
that's the reason, some folks think, / He left behind so great a stink." (Lines 13-
16)
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"The last loud trump must wake him now: / And, trust me, as the noise grows
stronger, / He'd wish to sleep a little longer." (Lines 6-8)
"His Grace ! impossible! what dead! / Of old age too, and in his bed!" (Lines 1-2)
poem: a satirical elergy on the death of a late famous general - jonathan swift