Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock is not generally seen as a love story. ... Pope was asked to write the story of Arabella Fermor and the curly tendril of hair that was cut by a man who was rumored to be one of her biggest suitors namely Robert, Lord Petre. ... Pope is exposing the pettiness that surrounds the society. ... Canto II. 15-18 Pope refers to the romance of the "belles" and "beaux", rather than women and men. Pope show the romanticism of a beautiful face being more than the errs of a personality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the best examples of a Mock Epic is Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. ... The main subject that Pope mocks is beauty. Pope addresses beauty in a multitude of ways. ... Pope also reveals the consequences beauty has upon society. ... As Russo, John P., author of Alexander Pope: Tradition and Identity (1972), points out Pope begins with an epic statement that echoes the first line of The Aeneid of Virgil: Arma virorumque cano, "Of arms and the man I sing O Heavenly Muse!" ...

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Since the beginning of time there has been a universal thought that man are superior to woman and such is the universal theme in Alexander Pope's, The Rape of the Lock. Although Pope ridicules women's actions and presents woman in a negative manner, he does it in such a humorous way that it may not be obvious and offensive to all readers. ... Pope goes on to describe from societies perspective that order to have one quality you must posses another attribute prior to successful achieving the other quality. ... This makes it hard for me to relate or learn from the poem because I fee...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate