Alexander Pope, at the request of his friend, John Caryll, writes the poem, The Rape of the Lock, to try to mitigate the animosity between two aristocratic families, the Petres and the Fermors; because Lord Petre playfully cuts off a lock of Miss Fermor's hair, the two families are embroiled in a bitter feud (Marlowe). ... Pope's use of symbolism provides a condemnation to the vanities and trite values of the aristocratic class in a gentle, fun way. As if preparing for a battle, Pope provides a detailed description of Belinda arming herself at her dressing table in Canto 1. ... &quo...

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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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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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Alexander Pope has long been considered one of the greatest satirists that English literary tradition has ever seen. ... Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" has its foundation in an amorous joke played by the young Lord Petre on Miss Arabella Fermor. ... In the poem the role of the supernatural beings is multi-faceted, and they are used by Pope to demonstrate many ideas. ... This is only one of many striking examples of Pope's use of bathos as a device to aid his satire. ... When we look at the language used by Pope in any sequence concerning the sylphs we can certainly pic...

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Alexander Pope began "The Rape of the Lock" in 1711 after an incident involving two families he knew. ... Pope and with the two families involved in the dispute, suggested to Mr. ... Pope decided to revise it, adding the sylphs and three more cantos in 1712. ... Pope had previous experience with epic poetry, having translated many classic Greek and Roman epics into English,. ... By the time Pope decided to write The Rape of the Lock he had plenty of experience with epic language from which to draw. ...

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