I sing—This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: - The Rape Of The Lock - The Uncovered English

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 suggestion 'The Rape Of The Lock' was written with the object of bringing about a reconciliation between two families which had fallen out with each other over a trivial incident. Thus John Caryll is the inspiration behind this poem depicting the dire offence and pope frankly admits that Caryll must be given due credit as a human promoter of this mock epic. Here the poet imitates the epic device of invocation and juxtaposes a human inspirer of the poem John Caryll with the Muse, the goddess of poetry.

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