And to Heaven it Went, That Beautiful Soul of a Lock

The element that I took from the mock-epic of The Rape of the Lock was the ending where the lock is forever thought to be immortalized in the stars as it would be more beautiful and envied there as it would ever be on earth. I thought that was hilarious and as comparing it to some other epic I am familiar with is the lost epic of Heracles, by Peisander (600 BC) - yes it is lost but the ending is still around as it is the constellation of Hercules, the Kneeling Man (he is holding the hydra and a club, he's about to beat them with it). I thought that was great because Heracles was immortalized in the stars because of his twelve arduous Labours and the hardships he endured as assuared by the 9 goddesses muse or Zeus (it's unclear who put him up there to be remembered forever). But the Lock was sent up to the skies "but trust the Muse-she saw it upward rise...A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trial of hair" (Canto 5 lines 123-128) basically to soothe the grief (as compared to when Romulus died and Proculus told everyone he went to heaven to soothe the grief). I loved that part the best, it was like the world's all over because this lock was taken and then lost but maybe just maybe it's up in the heavens looking down at us right now! How better off we are by avoiding the apocalypse of great sadness by not having the World totally void of this The Great Lock!