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The age in which Pope flourished is called the Augustan or Classical age, as well as the age of Pope, April (13)
because he becomes the chief poet and man of letters.
Alexander Pope as a Poet
Frivolous Ladies Of London Machinery in 'The Rape of the
Lock'
Belinda represents the typical fashionable ladies of the time. What is her life, and how does she spend her 'The Rape of the Lock' as a
day? There is not the slightest glimpse of seriousness or sincerity, goodness or grandeur of human life in any of her Representative Poem of...
words and actions. Belinda is a beautiful lady; she has a host of admirers; she is a flirt and a coquette.
'Paradise Lost' as a Classical
Epic
Favours to none, to all she smiles extends.
Oft she rejects, but never she offends. John Milton's Grand Style
Epic Similes in 'Paradise Lost'
But despite all their flirtations and the disdain they showed for their lovers, these ladies of the court did John Donne, as a Poet
secretly pine for love as Ariel, the guardian sylph, discovered about Belinda:
John Donne, as a Love Poet
An earthly lover lurking at her heart. Wit in John Donne's Poetry

They secretly harboured ambition to get married to lords and dukes, or men holding some high titles. And John Donne, as a Metaphysical
Poet
dreaming of their rich prospects women like Belinda sleep late and are used to rising late from their beds.
Conceits in John Donnes
Now lap dogs give themselves the rousing shake, Poetry
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake. Edmund Spenser as a Poet
'Faerie Queene' as an Allegory
When Belinda awakes, she is engaged immediately with her toilet which takes up a large part of her time. The
beauty of Belinda and the elaborate details of her toilet are all set forth with matchless grace, but behind all this March (7)
fascinating description, there is a pervading sense of vanity and emptiness.

Their hearts are toy-shops

They reverse the relative importance of things Total Views
The little with them is great and the great little.

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In Canto III, Pope gives a detailed description of the scene where Belindas beautiful lock of hair is to be raped.
There is Hampton Court, the palace of the English Queen beautifully situated on the banks of the river Thames, where 'Doctor Faustus' as a Morality Play

Britains statesmen oft the fall foredoom, Renaissance Elements in 'Doctor Faustus'
Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home. 'Faerie Queene' as an Allegory

The poet in a very subtle manner satirizes the activities of the palace. The Queens consultations with her John Donne, as a Love Poet
ministers and her taking tea with the luminaries of her regime are equated. The serious and the frivolous have been
mentioned in one breath, as if taking counsel is as routine and frivolous a matter as taking tea. The intrigues of the A Character Sketch of Portia
court are also laid bare. Christopher Marlowe as a Dramatist
Hollowness Of The Gentlemen Of The Day Chaucer's Satire and Irony

Not ladies only, but the gentlemen of the smart set are equally frivolous. Lord Petre and his fellows are the Geoffrey Chaucer: A Representative of His
representatives of the fashionable society of the time. They are all idle, empty minded folk, and seem to have nothing Age
else to do but making love to or flirting with ladies. The battle between the ladies and gentlemen shows emptiness Conflict in 'Doctor Faustus'
and futility of their lives. They visit clubs and coffee-houses, and there they indulge in empty scandalous talks. At
every word a reputation dies. Chaucer's Treatment of Ecclesiastical
Characters in 'The Prologue'
Pope describes the card-game in detail, because card-games seemed to occupy an important place in the
daily activities of fashionable ladies and gentlemen of the period. Sir plume is another fashionable gentleman,
exceeding all others in his vanity and utter emptiness. When he is requested by his lady love Thalestris to persuade

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Lord Petre to surrender the precious hairs of Belinda, he utters words which are unsurpassed in their emptiness.
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