Flecknoe‚” the mock epic genre “treats the low‚ mean‚ or absurd in the grand language‚ lofty style‚ and solemn tone of epic poetry. The obvious disparity between subject and style makes the satiric point” (Greenblatt et al. 2237). Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a much more extended example of this genre. For this exercise‚ focus on one of the following passages from the poem to answer the three questions below: Canto 1‚ lines 121-144 (2690); Canto 3‚ lines 37-100 (2694-6); or Canto 5‚ lines 75-104
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Character Analysis: Belinda Belinda is a gorgeous‚ upper-class woman; whose beauty and charm seem to always place her as the center of attention. However‚ she is well aware of this beauty and I think she loves the admiration and adoration that it provides her with. It is this self-awareness and vanity that Pope mocks throughout the poem. The fact that she is so enraged by the act of cutting a curl from her hair emphasizes her reliance on her appearance as validation of her worthiness through her
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NAME: NEELAM KHALID CLASS: M.A(PREV) SUBJECT: PRACTICAL CRITICISM ANALYSIS OF THE POEM SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY CROUSE CODE# 510 SUBMITTED TO: MAM SAMINA DATE: 30‚ OCT‚ 2012 Byron wrote this poem SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY about Mrs.Wilmot‚ his cousin Robert Wilmot’s wife. It echos Wordsworth’s earlier " The Solitary Reaper"(1807) in its conceit‚ the speaker’s awe upon seeing a woman
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Rape of the LOcke Rape of the lock : At the beginning of "The Rape of the Lock‚" Pope identifies the work as a “heroi-comical poem.” Today‚ the poem—and others like it—is referred to as a mock-epic and sometimes as a mock-heroic. Such a work parodies the serious‚ elevated style of the classical epic poem—such as The Iliad or The Odyssey‚ by Homer—to poke fun at human follies. Thus‚ a mock-epic is a type of satire; it treats petty humans or insignificant occurrences as if they were extraordinary
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The rape of the lock – Lauren Schexnayder 7. In Canto III‚ line 86‚ Pope juxtaposes‚ or places side by side‚ dying husbands and dying lapdogs. What is this effect of juxtaposition? Find other surprising juxtapositions in the poem‚ and describe their effects. The effect of the dying husbands to lapdogs juxtaposition is that husbands and lapdogs in regular conditions are compared to be equal‚ and husbands are then portrayed as followers of their wives‚ eating out of their hands and obeying every
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circle of prominent Roman Catholics. Robert‚ Lord Petre (the Baron in the poem) had precipitated a rift between their two families by snipping off a lock of her hair. The Baron - This is the pseudonym for the historical Robert‚ Lord Petre‚ the young gentleman in Pope’s social circle who offended Arabella Fermor and her family by cutting off a lock of her hair. In the poem’s version of events‚ Arabella is known as Belinda. Caryl - The historical basis for the Caryl character is John Caryll‚ a
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The destruction of the grand style of the epic is just what Pope was after in his mock epic‚ ’The Rape of the Lock.’ Pope had no such universal goal‚ or moral pronouncements to make as did Milton. His purpose was merely to expose the life of the nobility of his time. While Milton chose blank verse to express the immensity of the landscape of his epic‚ Pope chose to utilize the heroic couplet to trivialize this grandeur. Pope’s quick wit bounces the reader along his detailed description of his parlor-room
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Lost and Rape of the Lock When we think of an epic poem‚ we rapidly turn our minds to a world of adventures and deeds of heroic or legendary figures. Amongst the greatest epic poems stands John Milton’s Paradise Lost‚ a traditional epic based on the biblical story of the “fall of mankind”. There also exists a form of satire of the classical epic poem that adapts the elevated heroic style to a trivial subject; this is called a mock epic. Alexander Pope wrote by these means the Rape of the Lock‚ a humorous
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“THE RAPE OF THE LOCK”---SATIRE ON FEMININE FRIVOLITY: Social satire predominates in the work of Alexander pope. At a casual glance we can judge that the most of his work is satire on society. Satire is a way to criticize and condemn society for its evils. In fact it is a reaction to the moral indignation. Satire is a cynic way of depicting society. Dryden says that a satirist is no mere enemy of the offender than a physician to the patient. He prescribes the harsh remedies of inveterate diseases
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