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How does the poet describe the conquering force of unresisted steel at the end of Canto III ? - The Rape of the Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope How does the poet describe the conquering force of unresisted steel at the end of Canto III ? In concluding part of the Canto III of 'The Rape Of The Lock,' Pope describes the conquering force of steel in a mock-heroic vein. Those things which are not affected by the passage of time are brought to an end by the power of steel. Big solid monuments, just like human beings are liable to destruction by the power of steel. Steel could destroy the labour of Gods and reduce to dust the magestic city of Troy which was thought to have been built by Gods. Steel can destroy all those works of which man feels proud and razed to ground the great victory. In view of the all-conquering force of steel there is no...

The prostrate fails and begs with ardent eyes - The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope " The prostrate fails and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain and long prossess with prize" Who falls prostrate and where ? What does he desire to obtain and why ? Can he 'long posses the prize' ? Lord Petre, the Baron of the poem falls prostrate before an alter erected with twelve bulky French Romances. Belinda cherishes two locks of hair which gracefully hung in equal curls behind her smooth ivory neck to enhance beauty. The Baron desires to obtain Belinda's beautiful locks of hair. Beautiful women attracts a man with a single lock of hair. With her mazy lock Belinda keeps an admirer prisoner victim to the beauty of her delicate locks. The Baron admires these locks. He is enamoured of them to the point of ...

And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, - The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope " And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd," How does Pope change the dressing - table into a shine of beauty? In the concluding part of the canto I of 'The Rape Of The Lock,' Pope has described Belinda's dressing table routine in a mock-heroic manner. Leaving her bed, Belinda goes strait to the dressing table which lies uncovered. Robed in white and bare-headed. Belinda like a priestes worships piously the deities who presides over the toilet. While performing her toilet she acts as if she is performing some sacred religious rites. Betty stands by the side of toilet table represented to be the attar of a goddess. She is the inferior priests whose duty is to help Belinda in the sacred ceremony of toilet. ...

Know then, unnumber'd spirits round thee fly, - The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope " Know then, unnumber'd spirits round thee fly, The light militia of the lower sky;" Who are the light militia of the lower sky and why are they so called? The Sylphs are the light militia of the lower sky. Pope in 'The Rape Of The Lock' used Sylph Machinery for which he owes to the Rusicrucian mythology of a French book 'Le Comte de Gabalis.' According to Rusicrucians there are four type of spirits - Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymph and Salamander. The souls of light flirts after death go up the air and take the form of Sylphs and fly about in the fields of air. They have insect wings, thay are airy and insubstantial and they remain invisible to human eye. Pope called them 'light militia' that is light a...

When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, - The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope "When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand?" Who are Frolio and Daman? How does none 'rescue' the virgin from the other? Here Florio and Damon are names pf two imaginary gallants. These names are taken from ancient pastoral poetry. There is no virgin who could resist the amorous advances of a lord. The soft passionate appeal for sexual enjoyment by a lord named Florio makes a lady passionate and she is ready to satisfy his desires. But then the Sylphs present to her a mere attractive youngman named Damon to press her hand. Then the lady gives up Florio and turn to Damon. In this way neither Florio nor Damon rescues the virgin from the other. Thus the Sylphs guide a virgin ...

I sing—This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: - The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope Short Question "I sing—This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due:" What is the verse? Who is caryll? Why is it due to him? The verse is Alexander Pope's mock heroic poem "The Rape Of The Lock" Caryll (John Caryll, 1666 - 1738) is a friend of Pope and a distant cousin of Lord Petre. The poem is due to Caryll because Pope owes the suggestion of its subject-matter to Caryll. Once Lord Petre had offended Miss Arabella Fermor by clipping a lock of her hair and a bitter feeling resulted between the two families. Pope's friend John Caryll thought the bitterness might be ended if the young poet treats the matter in a funny manner. The result was a poem of two cantos. As per Caryll's sugge...

The Rape Of The Lock as a critique of contemporary fashionable society - The Uncovered English The Rape Of The Lock Alexander Pope Discuss 'The Rape Of The Lock' as a critique of contemporary fashionable society. The Rape Of The Lock like Pope's other great poems - The Dunciad and The Essays on Man is a faithful critique of the 18th century life, particularly the frivolous, artificial life of the beau monde - of the beaur and belles. So, it is rightly said, "The artificial tone of the age, the frivolous aspect of the feminity is no where more exquisitely pictured than in this poem. It is the epic of triflings; a page torn from the petty, pleasure-seeking life of the fashionable beauty." It is a document of 18th century high life with its follies, foibles and vanities, its elegance and emptiness, its intrigues and jealousies, its love-rivalries and scandal mo...

Pope as a satirist with reference to The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope Discuss Pope as a satirist with reference to 'Rape Of The Lock.' Poetic Craftsmanship in Rape Of The Lock Bonamy Dobree, an eminent critic, considers 'The Rape Of The Lock' as one of the greatst and most perfect of all Pope's work and says "The Rape Of The Lock is a jewel of the many facets each shining brilliantly." The wit for the sataric concept and brilliance of satire art exhibited by Pope in the poem is unanimously accepted as its paramount attraction. So Joseph Warton rightly remarks that "The Rape Of The Lock is the best satire extant; that it contains the truest and loveliest picture of modern life; and that the subject is of more elegant nature as well as more artfully conducted than that of any other heroic comi...

Supernatural Machinery - The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope Supernatural Machinery - Rape Of The Lock The Sylph Machinery is as Brower says, "Probably the largest single way in which Pope imparted the qualities of splender and wonder to his actors and actions" in The Rape Of The Lock. In the dedication addressing to Miss Arabella Fermor, Pope describes what he means by the Machinery of the poem. He writes, "The Machinery, Madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the Deities, Angels or Daemons, are made to act in a poem..." The first version of The Rape Of The Lock was made up of only two cantos. Later on Pope saw the possibility of expanding it and he expanded it into a mock heroic poem, of five cantos by including into it the supernatural creatures like the Sylphs and Gnomes who seem to be the guid...

A Tale of Two Cities A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens Question: How do the two cities contribute to the structure of the novel? Title of the novel 'A Tale Of Two Cities' or the sense of overall balance achieved in the novel. About over all structural balance of the novel, 'A Tale Of Two Cities,' Hellen Rex Killer commented, "The two cities are London and Paris. The time is just before during The French Revolution. A peculiar chain of events knits and weaves the lives of a few simple, private people with the outbreak of a terrible public event." In this novel Dickens has artistically interwoven two narratives, two cities, history and story, public and private life and a variety of themes through a few selected characters, suspense, symbolism, parallelism and contrast. The alternate movement to and from both the cities highlights the contrast between them and makes t...

Page title The Lotus Eater William Somerset Maugham Question: Title of The Lotus Eater According to Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English the word Lotus Eater means "a person who leads a lazy dreamy life and is not comcerned with the business of the world." A.S. Hornby in his Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English has defined it as a "person who gives himself up to indolent enjoyment." The title of the story The Lotus Eater is at once apt and illuminating as it has a direct bearing to the cemtral theme of the story and adequately indicates the outlook of the character of the hero Wilson. The very phrase 'Lotus Eater' is associated with Greek mythology and the second Homeric Epic. In Greek mythology Lotophagi were a race of people on the island dominated by lotus plant. Maugham does not draw the idea of his story from the Hom...

Page title Question: Trace the verious periods in Chaucer's literary Career. Answer Chaucer symbolises as no other writer does in the Middle Ages. He stands in much the same relation to the life of his time as Pope does to the earlier phases of the 18th century, and Tennyson to the Victorian era. His place in English literature is even more important than theirs, for he is the first to make our composite language a thing compact and vital. Dryden rightly called Chaucer "The Father of English Poetry and held him the highest reverence. Ifor Evans goes one step ahead to remark." Modern poetry begins with Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), diplomat soldier and scholar. He was filled by both natural genius and the circumstances of life to become the most technical accomplished and the most universally appealing of mediaeval English writers and indeed one of the most skillful an...