Basic Literature

  Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope ·        pope’s masterpiece “the rape of the lock”, written in, a brilliant satire on the fashionable life of the upper class of his time. ·        The artificiality of the lifestyle of this class and the frivolous nature of the women are exquisitely portrayed in this “epic” which parodies the great classical epics.   ·        “The rape of the lock” is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by pope. The poem satirizes a minor incident by comparing it in to the epic world of the Gods.   ·        People utilized the character Belinda to represent Arabella and introduced on entire system of “sylphs”, or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodied version of the God and Goddesses if the conventional Epic. (Pope uses the traditional epic style)   ·        Though, the poem is humoro...

Epics     Epics in literature What is an "epic"? ·        A long narrative poem ·        written in heroic couplets ·        involvement of characters is massive in number ‘extensively descriptive ·        length is extensively large ·        there is great interaction between mortals and immortals             Ex: there is a guardian God for every Epic ·        mostly Epic hero's fate is decided by immortals ·        so many super natural elements   Mock epics ·        long narrative poem ·        same structure to the epics ·        written in heroic couplets ·     ...