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The Rape of the Lock By Alexander Pope Edited by Jack Lynch This is the expanded, five-canto version of the poem. (More details to come.) The RAPE of the LOCK. AN HEROI-COMICAL P O E M. In FIVE CANTO's. Alexander Pope Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos, Sed juvat hoc .  · The Rape Of The Lock: Alexander Pope: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive. The Rape Of The Lock. Audio Preview. playing from archive. Internet Archive. 1 Canto 1 2 Canto 2 3 Canto 3 4 Canto 4  · The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope. The following entry presents criticism of Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock (written in two cantos in , .

Alexander Pope Canto I I am singing about the terrible consequences that come from love, What great battles are started by trivial things; This verse is offered to my inspiraiton Caryl! Even Belinda might agree to look at this, And it is a small subject, but the praise won't be small, If she inspires, and he approves of, my verse. This book examines the mock-epic poem "Rape of the Lock" in its social, literary, and historical contexts. The poem takes up a small portion of the book, and the rest is made up of diary entries, letters, essays, newspapers, etc. that help to explain the culture surrounding Pope. Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock: An Introduction. The Rape of the Lock (text) had its origins in an actual, if trivial, incident in polite society: in , the twenty-one year old Robert, Lord Petre, had, at Binfield, had surreptitiously cut a lock of hair from the head of the beautiful Arabella Fermor, whom he had been courting. Arabella.

The Rape of the Lock was written by Alexander Pope and first published in , then reworked and published again in The poem is a mock-epic that satirizes the upper-class in London at the bltadwin.ru story focuses on the central character, Belinda, whose lock of hair is cut off at a social gathering. Why Pope wrote the Rape of the Lock as a Social Satire? The event of the writing of The Rape of the Lock was a quarrel between two families over a trifle, the cutting of a lock of hair of a girl by a lord. The Pope was commissioned to write a poem to make the two families laugh it away. For, after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die: When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame. And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. More About this Poem.