The Rape of the Lock: Relationship between Literature and Society



Link: http://neoenglishsystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/rape-of-lock-is-best-example-of.html



The Rape of the Lock is a poem in which Alexander Pope shows himself emphatically as the spokesman of his age. This poem pictures the artificial tone of the age and the frivolous aspect of femininity. "It is the epic of triflings; a page torn from the petty, pleasure-seeking life of fashionable beauty;

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