The attitudes portrayed in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man and Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" towards mankind is strikingly similar. ... Pope and Swift present situations that man has to face in conjunction with illogical conclusions. ... Alexander Pope addresses in "An Essay On Man" the issue of the pride and man and man's emphasis on knowledge. ... Pope suggest to the reader to submit to the laws of nature, and do not think or act beyond mankind. ... Pope states: "All Nature, is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All di...

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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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"The Rape of Lock" by Alexander Pope is the most perfect example of mock-epic genre. ... Pope's way of satirizing the fashionable society and its non-serious values is represented in the style of an epic poem, through the use of familiar epic devices. ... Pope describes scissors as the weapon which is another type of mock-epic. In the end, Pope emphasizes the journey into the underworld where a gnome named Umbriel takes the place instead of Ariel and goes to the cave of Spleen. ... Pope sees the society as a struggle of a man's mind and heart; he wants to show and to prove that hypo...

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The Values Behind Satire Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift were friends that wrote parodies. ... Alexander Pope was a very well mannered, well-educated, subtle man. ... The Rape of the Lock shows why most everyone had the utmost respect for Alexander Pope. ... In culmination, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift were two of the greatest writers of satire. ... To rap it all up, the contrasting morals and values of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift are responsible for the different brand of satire. ...

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The most important poet of the eighteenth century was Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a catholic child prodigy who was of delicate health conditions. Pope's early writings induced envy in other writers, therefore he was lampooned and ridiculed and in an attempt for defense, he turned to satire. In 1728 Pope wrote The Dunciad, which attacks dull, uninteresting writers of all kinds and shows the forces of stupidity, ignorance and folly taking over the world. Another of Pope's writings is the Moral Essays (1731-1735), which passes judgement on immoral men and women as well as very rich p...

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