The Rape Of The Lock Analysis

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ANALYZE THE RAPE OF THE LOCK AS MOCK EPIC POEM. Alexander the pope was born on 21st May 1688 in the city of London and his father is believed to work in the wholesale trade and nothing was known for the boy’s early life and they were worry about the physical strength since he was not in good condition. Alexander pope, the rape of the lock is a mock epic poem and the language use here are heightening the mockery of the situation and it’s all fancy and not serious. It all deals with the everyday person, beauty ladies, and fashionable man and in the card game. This situation may not be necessary be in the grand manner, it can be in the meeting place, coffee table, or in the card game. The rape of the lock opens with appealing to the muse and here the muse is not heavenly muse but rather invokes and dedicates the poem to his friend John Caryll. The subject matter here is some extreme offence which is nothing but the cutting off the lock of hair of the young Belinda. From the first canto of the poem we have seen that it introduce the …show more content…

The rape of the lock seems to be less important in nature because the incident occurs in place of card game Ombre where the Lord Petre cuts off the lock of the hair and such thing is a reality in life. The speaker in this poem compares her to one of the warriors in the battle because she puts up makeup and preparing a lot to show off her beauty. The purpose of mock heroic or mock epic poem is satirical which attack on the people or the society. So the target of the attack on person, an institutions, or whole of the society. Subject of such mock epic poem brings laughter to the people and kind of enjoyment to readers. Center incident in the poem the rape of the lock is the theft of a lock of hair and the battle starts between two families as a result of the theft and was found a kind of the violation of the rules in the

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