Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0336 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Want of Work" in Swift
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The idea
Swift writes that the children as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work or leave their native country. Want means lack, the sense worked in unit three. The archaic sense appears inside the passage a tone question is asked about, so the two skills are not separable.
In practice
Want is lack here as well.
Where people slip
Word sense and tone arrive together.
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