Alexander Pope's Essay on Man

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Alexander Pope's Essay on Man - Man is Never Satisfied

Alexander Pope's Essay on Man is a philosophical poem, written, characteristically in heroic couplet. It is an attempt to justify and vindicate

the ways of God to man. It’s also a warning that man himself is not as in his

pride, he seems to believe the center of all things. Eventhough not truly

Christian, the essay makes implicit assumption that man has fallen and that

he must seek his own salvation. Pope sets out to demonstrate that no matter

how imperfect complex and disturbingly full evil the universe may appear to

be, it does function in a rational fashion, according to natural laws and is in

fact considered as a whole perfect work of God. It appears unsatisfy to us

only because our perceptions are limited by...

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