... miss a masquerade." Additionally, he used a very fundamental method to expose the absurdity of female vanity. He compares smaller less important objects to larger more outstanding things. Just as Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost is mesmerized by her own image as she sees it reflected in the water of one of Eden's rivers, to her own image Belinda "bends, to that her eyes she ... ...

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... of Absalom against his father king David. Dryden uses biblical figures to refer to Charles II-David-, Absalom-Monmouth- and Shaftesbury-Achitopel- and describes a view associated with symmetry as in Milton's "Paradise Lost-. This poem is a great achievement for its author, where Dryden uses a satirical and argumentative verse to debate on public affaires in the form of verse satire. He was a political poet ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate