Question

Elaborate upon the mock-epic nature of Pope's “The Rape of the Lock”.​

Answer 1

Alexander Pope belonged to the age of Satire.

Explanation:

• Most poems during that period were satiric.  Mac Flecknoe by John Dryden set the trend for mock epic poems.  The  of the Lock is one of the most popular mock epic poems of English literature.  

• Written in five cantos it follows the epic writing features.  Like epics it begins with an invocation of the Muse. But the Muse here is not a Goddess but Lord Caryll.  

• The tone of the poem is lofty like an epic but the hyperbole randomly used is to mock the subject ironically.  The war for a beautiful woman is the usual subject of an epic. Here the beautiful lady is Belinda but the war is not of epic content.

• The weapon is a pair of scissors and the object of victory is Belinda's lock of hair.  Preparation for the war is mockingly described through Belinda's toilette.  

• Her army comprises the Rosicrucian Sylphs, supernatural beings.  In an epic style Pope writes in iambic pentameter in heroic couplets.

• He echoes the epics to intensify the satire.  Thus all in all it is a perfect mock epic poem.

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