Monday, March 29, 2010

The Rape of the Lock

For Tuesday, find elements in The Rape of the Lock that seem to mock (comically make use of) other epics with which you are familiar. These might include Paradise Lost, Inferno, The Iliad, The Odyssey etc. You might also write about modern and contemporary mock-heroic epics that bear similarities to Pope's work. Quite simply, the poem doesn't "work" unless you make such comparisons, so have fun with it. All silliness is welcome since the poem is, well, pretty silly.

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