... 's The Rape of the Lock. Pope uses highly refined verses, pungent satirical heroic couplets, and intelligence to satirize not only the irrepressible intricacy and solemnity of subject matters found within epic poems, but the commotion that results when a young lord cuts a small lock of hair from the head of an young beauty. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope exhausts much energy ... of ladies who even after death participate in the stratagems of courtship by protecting them from gossip and scandal. These sylphs represent Meddling Gods and Goddesses that exist in most epic poems; Pope diminish...

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... ". It is interesting that one of the truly outstanding satirical poems of the Augustan age has also been described as the "generic model" for the Augustan mock epic. As the term suggests, the mock epic genre parodies the classical epic; it is constructed around the same basic formula and employs ... coquettish young ladies of Augustan society, in the mock-heroic sense they mimic the role of the gods in the Greek and Roman epic traditions. In classical heroic literature the gods were intimately involved in the fate of heroes, something which Pope has carried off to great ... even more so ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... satire and using the genres of epics and odes, poetry attained a wit combined with grandeur never achieved before. The Age of Dryden John Dryden's poems represent his age. They lack whimsical, personal notions, but clearly express opinion. Next to plays, translations and critical writings he is best remembered through ... to. Moderate, in good taste and clear the new poetry should be. The voice, inspired by Virgil, Horace and Milton, was grand and epic. The controlling element was wit, meaning everything from fast and reasoned thinking, scepticism to inventiveness. The mock-heroic MacFle...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Written in heroic couplets, it 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- ... a lock of a young woman's hair, sending her into a hysterical fit. This young woman is named Belinda. What you need to know about this epic is that the world in which Belinda lives is a complete fairy tale. Her days consist of putting on makeup for three hours, playing ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of an understanding of that period's language in order to fully understand the parody involved and get the most out of the intended humour. Mr. Pope had previous experience with epic poetry, having translated many classic Greek and Roman epics into English,. Some examples of poetry he translated were Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, John Milton's Paradise Lost, and Aenid. By the ... time Pope decided to write The Rape of the Lock he had plenty of experience with epic language from which to draw. One might draw comparisons from some of his translations directly to The Rape of the Lock; for ins...

• Word Count: 1460
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School