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... flowing imaginable . * Pope expresses three principles here that are important for understanding the nature of his achievement in the Pastorals . First , he does not mean to deliberately falsify the pastoral life but to idealize or ...
... flowing imaginable . * Pope expresses three principles here that are important for understanding the nature of his achievement in the Pastorals . First , he does not mean to deliberately falsify the pastoral life but to idealize or ...
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... flowing , neutral parallelism of this passage is a good example of Pope's expansion of his sentence beyond the closed couplet , and of his recognition since the Pastorals that every couplet does not need a separate predication with ...
... flowing , neutral parallelism of this passage is a good example of Pope's expansion of his sentence beyond the closed couplet , and of his recognition since the Pastorals that every couplet does not need a separate predication with ...
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... flowing of a stream , it mock - poetically and softly rolls Bentley into " Port , " and into a pun ( wine ) . The special élan of this passage lies in its combination of different couplet structures , its rhythms and tone colors . As in ...
... flowing of a stream , it mock - poetically and softly rolls Bentley into " Port , " and into a pun ( wine ) . The special élan of this passage lies in its combination of different couplet structures , its rhythms and tone colors . As in ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Pastorals 1709 | 17 |
An Essay on Criticism 1711 | 45 |
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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