1. Relationship Between Form & Content Within Rape of the lock
... is also a prelapsarian, a more perfect world than what we have. The author, Alexander Pope, turned this poem into a mock epic, a form of social poetry, attacking imperialism and mercantilism. Others see it as a sexually liberated, comical poem that makes perfect sense. It is also a mock-heroic satire, yet we do not know ... as I can see. Pope's sentences seem right branching, appearing to have verbs at the beginning of sentences such as, He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like Thunder on the prostrate Ace. (Canto III, 97-98). Pope is always using bathos to shift from t...
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- Grade Level: High School