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Page 185
... Friend ascribes to the public mind . And in the last couplet , the rhymes rather wittily break down , as Pope muses and " hums " a mo- ment about the consequences of getting entangled in the web of the greatest politician on earth , Sir ...
... Friend ascribes to the public mind . And in the last couplet , the rhymes rather wittily break down , as Pope muses and " hums " a mo- ment about the consequences of getting entangled in the web of the greatest politician on earth , Sir ...
Page 187
... Friend insists with characteristic cynicism that satire must " know its time and place , " and that it attack the Great only when they fall . At this point ( 105-22 ) Pope turns on the Friend because he will not see that if satire is to ...
... Friend insists with characteristic cynicism that satire must " know its time and place , " and that it attack the Great only when they fall . At this point ( 105-22 ) Pope turns on the Friend because he will not see that if satire is to ...
Page 190
... Friend ( Adversary ) in this dialogue is not as clever and agile as the first Friend , and the Satirist must be more pointed and graphic in his treat- ment of certain issues . Pope's contention in Dialogue I , that satire must be ...
... Friend ( Adversary ) in this dialogue is not as clever and agile as the first Friend , and the Satirist must be more pointed and graphic in his treat- ment of certain issues . Pope's contention in Dialogue I , that satire must be ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Pastorals 1709 | 17 |
An Essay on Criticism 1711 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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achieve Aeneid Alexander Pope antith antithetic Audra and Williams balance and parallelism balanced antithesis balanced line beauty Belinda caesura chiasmus chiastic climax closed couplets complex contrast couplet norm couplet structure couplet style create Dialogue diction dominant Dulness dunces Dunciad earlier early poems effect Eloisa to Abelard emotional emphasizes end-stopped Epilogue Epistle to Burlington Epistle to Dr Essay on Criticism ev'ry expresses eyes Friend Goddess grace hemistich inversion irony last couplet last line line structure literary Lock lover meaning mock epic Nature norm couplets norm Pope nouns nymph paragraph passage passion Pastorals pattern plet poem's poet poetic poetry Pope employs Pope's couplet Pope's rhymes Rape reader rhetorical rhyme words rhythm run-on line satire Satirist scene second couplet second line sense sentence shepherds simple sound stylistic suggest Sylphs syntax theme things Tillotson tion Twick varied verb verse whole Windsor-Forest witty zeugma