Discuss Alexander Pope's 'The Rape Of The Lock' as a 'Mock Heroic Poem'.
Title: Discuss Alexander Pope's 'The Rape Of The Lock' as a 'Mock Heroic Poem'.
Category: /Literature/Poetry
Details: Words: 2328 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Discuss Alexander Pope's 'The Rape Of The Lock' as a 'Mock Heroic Poem'.
Category: /Literature/Poetry
Details: Words: 2328 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
One of the finest examples of mock heroic poetry in the English language was composed after John Caryll, a friend of Pope's, informed the poet of an incident regarding two land owning, Catholic families, the Petres & the Fermors. The young lord Petre had cut off a lock of hair from the fashionable society lady Arabella Fermor, and both she and her family had taken offence. Caryll suggested that Pope should 'write a poem …showed first 75 words of 2328 total…
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References:
Gordon, I (2001) The Literary Encyclopedia, Alexander Pope: WWW.LitEncy.com.
Pope, A (1714) The Rape of the Lock.
Pope, A (1711) Essay on Criticism.
Sanders, A (2004) The Short Oxford History of English Literature, 3rd ed: Oxford: <Tab/>Oxford University Press.