Introduction: Belinda is the most famous character in Pope’s poetry. She is a bundle of contradictions. On one hand‚ she is the object of satire; on the other hand‚ she is the goddess of beauty and charm. In fact‚ Pope invokes her blessings as if she were the goddess of poetry. At another place‚ she is the representative of the decadent aristocratic society. Through her character‚ Pope describes the flippancy and depravity of the English society of the eighteenth century. Essentially here
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Reading Response-The Rape of the Lock What are some of the images that recur through the poem‚ and what significance do they have? The Rape of the Lock is a very good example of mock epic poetry. The poem concerns a feud between two Catholic families‚ the Petres and the Fermors. Lord Petre cuts a lock from Arabella Fermor’s hair. Arabella and her family were very upset by this incident. Pope appears to write the poem in order to help bring peace between the two families in hopes they will
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Analysis: Themes and Form The Rape of the Lock is a humorous indictment of the vanities and idleness of 18th-century high society. Basing his poem on a real incident among families of his acquaintance‚ Pope intended his verses to cool hot tempers and to encourage his friends to laugh at their own folly. The poem is perhaps the most outstanding example in the English language of the genre of mock-epic. The epic had long been considered one of the most serious of literary forms; it had been applied
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Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt D.O.B-D.O.B: September 6‚ 1817 - September 19‚ 1893‚ in London‚ England and came to Canada in 1835 to work for the British American Land Company. Family Information: On February 9‚ 1848‚ Galt married Elliott Torrance‚ the daughter of John Torrance‚ of Saint-Antoine Hall‚ Montreal. She died on May 25‚ 1850‚ shortly after giving birth to their only son‚ Elliott. Later he married her younger sister‚ Amy Gordon Torrance. Amy gave birth to 7 daughters and 2 more sons. They
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2012 Alexander Pope’s use of the Mock-Epic Conventions in The Rape of the Lock Many authors use mock-epic conventions when writing poetry. Mock-epic convention‚ by definition‚ is a type of satire that treats petty human occurrences as if they were extraordinary or heroic. Mock-epics often will be parodies of serious classical epics‚ but in a more humorous way. Alexander Pope’s mock-epic poem‚ The Rape of the Lock‚ is one of the best known examples of the use of characteristics of epic conventions
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The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope What mighty contests rise from trivial things‚ I sing--This verse to Caryl‚ Muse! is due: This‚ ev’n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject‚ but not so the praise‚ If she inspire‚ and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive‚ Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t’ assault a gentle belle? O say what stranger cause‚ yet unexplor’d‚ Could make a gentle belle reject a lord? In tasks so bold‚ can little men engage‚ And in soft bosoms
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If you expect the worst‚ you’ll never be disappointed. Those could be the words heard from Ruby Cooper’s in the beginning of Sarah Dessen’s book “Lock and Key”. Lock and key is a roller-coaster of emotions and life lessons that will keep your turning page after page. Ruby’s story starts out in the many ram shackled apartments she lives in with her alcoholic mother who abandons her and ends in the luxurious home of her estranged sister Cora and brother in law Jamie. Ruby’s childhood was miserable
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Analysis of the rape of the lock Alexander pope is considered one of the greatest poets of enlightenment‚ the age of reason which refers to the time of the guiding intellectual movement. It covers about a century and a half in Europe especially in France and Switzerland. The physical defects that pope suffers made him an easy target for heartless mockery‚ he wrote “the rape of the lock” to satirize a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of gods. It was based on an
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