Question

What is pope views of marriage in epistle to miss blount

Answer 1

Answer:

Alexander pope's epistle to miss blount

Explanation:

Alexander Pope originally published Epistle to a Young Lady in 1712. His subject may have been imaginary or real, but in 1735 he changed the poem’s title to reference his dear friend, Martha Blount: Epistle to Miss Blount. They had been close since 1711, when Pope left London at age 23 after a vicious attack on his character and physical features by the critic John Dennis. He settled for a time in a rural community around Binfield and met the Blount sisters, described as possessing two of the finest faces in the universe. Whether Martha Blount became Pope’s lover is unknown, but they enjoyed a lifelong relationship.

Pope subtitled the poem “With the Works of Voiture,” a reference to Vincent de Voiture, a French poet whose gallantry in letter writing proved legend. Much of Pope’s own “epistle” focuses on the act of writing, and he opens,

In these gay thoughts the Loves and Graces shine,

And all the Writer lives in ev’ry Line;

His easie Art may happy Nature seem,

Trifl es themselves are Elegant in him.

While he writes ostensibly of Voiture, Pope references himself by extension. He expresses the opinion that excellent writers make their efforts appear slight, as if natural. However, the smallest matters, “trifles,” they may transform into the elegant simply through the power of the word. Pope continues through line 20 bemoaning the loss of Voiture, describing how his absence will affect his admirers. Their hearts will heave with sighs to have lost “The Smiles and Loves” that “dy’d in Voiture’s death, / But that for ever in his Lines they breath.” Pope emphasizes a familiar theme, that art grants immortality to its creator, as it lives on after the creator’s death.