It can be said that Alexander Pope’s epic “Eloisa to Abelard” was a poem like no other. Based on the love letters exchanged between the two, Pope’s poem was rooted in physical historical evidence. But by taking the side of Eloise and her unrequited love for Abelard, Pope begins to tread in new waters. Furthermore, although before his time, there are elements of romanticism sprinkled throughout the poem dealing with individualism, nature, and strong emotion. By reading the letters, and in this paper
Castration of Eloisa in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard If Pope's intent in writing an Ovidian heroic epistle is to show the entire range of his protagonist's emotions from meekness to violent passion, then he was wise to choose the twelfth-century story of Eloisa and Abelard as his subject. Eloisa and her teacher Abelard retired to different monasteries after her family discovered they were lovers and brutally castrated him. Years later, Eloisa by chance intercepted a letter from Abelard to a friend
Nature is often used as imagery in Alexander Pope's, Eloisa to Abelard, as well as descriptions of heaven, holiness, God, being wedded to God, Jesus' sacrifice, the sacred, solitary confinement, crime and offense, desire for submission to God and often tears and weeping. As the poem is about Eloisa and Abelard being in love, married and having a child, then being separated and Abelard castrated and Eloisa forced into a convent, descriptions of nature are useful imagery, because it is used to explain
to review, whatever. And if you don't want to, know that I won't be mad, because you've already given me more than I could have wanted, more than I probably deserved. One of my favorite poems (epistles to be technical) is Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard," particularly the lines "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot/ The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind/ Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned." In essence, it's all about how someone who doesn't
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind is based on Eloisa to Abelard, a poem written by Edgar Allen Poe. The film resolves around the relationship between Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski. Joel is a soft-spoken introvert, while Clementine is free and uninhibited.
Gothic is described as something that is destructive and barbaric which attracts and disrupts what is considered civilised. Therefore to a certain extent Jackson is right. however the “very act of speaking about these socially unspeakable is an ambiguous gesture (Punter p.417).” This is where the element of superstition and the paranormal come in. In Horace Walpole’s The Castle Otranto and Matthew Lewis’ The Monk this element of paranormal and superstition gives way or embodies the contradiction