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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days agoReligion is mentioned a few times throughout the poem such as here, when Belinda wears a cross that the infidels admire, the alters, etc. Pope is using religion in a satirical manner to expose the impious and […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days ago[Not half so fix’d the Trojan could remain,] The comparison of this story in “The Rape of the Lock” and the history and story of the fall of Troy might be doing more than providing social and political c […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days ago[ Men prove with child, as pow’rful fancy works,] This line is very interesting. All the other changes involve inanimate objects coming alive and taking on human qualities or with the maids, turning into i […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days ago[E’er felt such rage, resentment, and despair,/ As thou, sad Virgin! for thy ravish’d Hair.] Here, Pope uses Cynthia to juxtapose Belinda’s reaction and suffering. After the Baron cuts off Belinda’s hair, as p […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days ago[Few ask, if fraud or force attain’d his ends.] Perhaps Pope is making social commentary on society. After creating the image of an adverse and hostile scene of what the Baron wants to do to Belinda, Pope w […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days ago[Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose,/ Quick as her eyes, and as unfix’d as those:/ Favours to none, to all she smiles extends;/ Oft she rejects, but never once offends.] How Pope describes Belinda being […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days agoThese two stanzas containing lines 47-74 describe and dramatize the card game (at least I think so). Pope has personified the cards and game. “Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board.” “Gain’d but […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 5 days ago[In glitt’ring dust and painted fragments lie!] This stanza is really interesting. It’s contrasting terror with beauty. Pope is making Belinda’s horror and terror seem like “living lightning from her eyes,” ” […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 3 weeks, 1 day agoWhat isn’t clear to me is how the poem is written in a very soft cadence with subdued and gentle wording, yet the topics being discussed are fairly vulgar. Why did Pope choose to write such a soothing poem about a […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 3 weeks, 1 day agoWhat isn’t clear to me here is how Pope often uses alliteration towards the ends of the lines. An example is “hover’d o’er her head” here in line 22. It seems to interact with the mock-heroic, iambic pentameter, […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 3 weeks, 6 days agoAlthough it occurs throughout the poem, this technique is extremely evident in this stanza. Montagu uses iambic pentameter and heroic couplets. The heroic couplets allow for a full thought to be self-contained […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 3 weeks, 6 days agoLine 12 contains a metaphor for Flavia’s life changing. After contracting small-pox, not only did her appearance change, but so did her entire life. In line 2 she wonders, “Thus breath’d the anguish of a wounded […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month ago[In short, I behaved myself so unaccountably, that they were all of the captain’s opinion when he first saw me, and concluded I had lost my wits] Again, a mention of madness and irrationality. Along with the f […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month ago[The captain was very well satisfied with this plain relation I had given him] Was the captain truly trusting of Gulliver’s story? Or was Gulliver just convinced he was believed as this is his own perspective? […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month ago[thought I was mad] This relates to madness and irrationality. Gulliver’s strange behavior is being looked at by two perspectives at once: the English/European human and the Brobdingnag giant. Through an […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month ago[I was equally confounded] Here, Gulliver is struggling with his identity. Is he a human or a giant? What is a human? How should they be regarded?
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month ago[“If there be any body below, let them speak.” I answered, “I was an Englishman, drawn by ill fortune into the greatest calamity that ever any creature underwent, and begged, by all that was moving, to be deliv […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month ago[pleasure ] I find it interesting how Gulliver began the book discussing his situation and treatment with disgust and disdain. Now he’s found comfort, making ‘orders,’ and has pleasure in his nearly three year […]
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month ago[the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion.] This mirrors a common source of strife and violence in England.
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Anya Clark commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 month agoRegarding the entire paragraph: Swift is being satirical. Aspects of a well rounded society are being mentioned with arts, histories, sciences, mathematics, etc. being named. These different studies allow for a […]
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