English @ SUNY Geneseo | Ella Mercier | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/emercier/activity/ Activity feed for Ella Mercier. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:25:20 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b4fab74ca1e494daee808cd6ce19390f Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-v/#comment-461 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:53:45 -0500 In lines 15 and 16, Pope is arguing that while beauty can gain power (like what Montagu was talking about), it is not enough to hold on to it. One might be beautiful, but in order to really do something with their […]

]]> dd9d4b1b94fc5be21e8fcaa5b76284b9 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-v/#comment-460 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:46:49 -0500 In this line, Pope is sarcastically saying that all of what just happened throughout the story occurred over a lock of hair, and this story will now be told over and over again.

]]> cf1c2eab64a0f89fb7e7c801b6cf06fe Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-iv/#comment-459 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:45:04 -0500 In this line Pope is making fun of what he deems “superficial” women by saying that to them a pimple is the worst thing that can happen to them.

]]> cc14385350dc900da273571d3659b99d Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-iv/#comment-458 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:40:29 -0500 In lines 3-8, alongside the Iambic Pentameter that Pope is writing in, he also repeated the word “not” at the beginning of each line, to really emphasize Belinda’s rage.

]]> fae26ff385d6201af55ed8b9ae3e7908 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-iii/#comment-457 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:31:05 -0500 Pope is referencing playing cards here, to show how disorderly the troops are in that moment, by comparing them to shuffled playing cards, he is giving the reader a clear vision of the chaos.

]]> 8273204b1d9dc5e22c3fba22a5b7c781 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-iii/#comment-456 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:27:04 -0500 Pope here is saying that the fairy queens’ powers are “soft like flowers”, implying that even though they do have powers, they are not as strong as the fairy kings’. (This is where this comment is supposed to go, […]

]]> f3f41151860acac7c7c35c6085031b3b Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-iii/#comment-455 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:26:11 -0500 Wait not this line sorry I don’t know how this comment ended up here.

]]> 1a1cf392877fc787c7a3ce38d458edd5 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-iii/#comment-454 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:25:31 -0500 Pope here is saying that the fairy queens’ powers are “soft like flowers”, implying that even though they do have powers, they are not as strong as the fairy kings’.

]]> 386e9bdac6f881c2633d9e04ebe7ccac Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-ii/#comment-449 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:02:59 -0500 In this whole stanza, Pope is describing Belinda’s beauty, but also comparing her to a trap. Like what Maggie said a couple lines up, he is comparing love to a Labyrinth, which is full of traps, but I think that […]

]]> ec6c274387f3dc37bb631267f91314aa Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-ii/#comment-448 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:11 -0500 In this line and the next one, the author is establishing that the woman that he is describing is beloved, and worshipped, by the people around her. However, she is still a devout Christian (the cross on her neck […]

]]> 791e5a4cd10544343ac3486c45a7a76d Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-i/#comment-397 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:03:48 -0500 Something that is not clear to me is what is meant by the use of the word “Ombre” in this line? Also, why is it capitalized?

]]> af3bec4f2a690ad0937b60fc2e9e2467 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-i/#comment-396 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:02:53 -0500 What isn’t clear to me here is who Belinda is? Additionally, who Caroyl is? I am sure that we will meet them later in the poem, however, something else that is not clear to me is what the word “vouchsafe” means. I […]

]]> c20e793655f82fc48f7b869ee17576e4 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/town-eclogues-saturday-the-small-pox/#comment-355 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:26:04 -0500 In lines like this, where Flavia is essentially begging someone to save her, Montagu is showing how her beauty has made her feel entitled to things, such as a better life than one where she might not be able to […]

]]> 7a8429aa26c28faed30519229cee0610 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/town-eclogues-saturday-the-small-pox/#comment-352 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:20:05 -0500 Throughout the poem, Montagu is writing in iambic pentameter, and heroic couplets, and I think that she is using the heroic couplets specifically to create satire around how the poem is about a women who has lost […]

]]> 4b5ad54ab60827bab3838868109c1909 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/gullivers-travels/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag/chapter-1/#comment-127 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:46:54 -0500 Naturally the author had to throw in some comment about how the English are superior to everyone else.

]]> 38d9df5dd5f49aee1e78b7d159222a20 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/gullivers-travels/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag/chapter-1/#comment-124 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:44:04 -0500 Most cultures love alcohol in some capacity

]]> 78553cdbcb4a8daa5f17c0607d4851a3 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/gullivers-travels/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag/chapter-1/#comment-122 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:42:28 -0500 The farmer has no interest in Gulliver’s money, goes to show how different cultures value different things. This probably would have been unheard of during this time in England.

]]> 0c8ee58d82d2941df635d7ad3baff5d0 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/gullivers-travels/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag/chapter-1/#comment-86 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:20:37 -0500 Very matter of fact about this giant that he’s seeing, a very dry way of being humorous

]]> 2c934ba51d6f70d846305476d29ae048 Ella Mercier commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/gullivers-travels/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag/chapter-1/#comment-65 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:38:12 -0500 Even though they had no idea where they were, they thought that as long as they kept going on the course that they were, they would not end up in a really cold part of the world. So, even while facing a lack of […]

]]> ecf3bcc2f2d4f5a70d5c47367127d1ce Ella Mercier commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/gullivers-travels/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag/chapter-1/#comment-64 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:34:51 -0500 Everything was going well at first, until it wasn’t. This seems as though it was common for these 18th century journeys by boat. Due to the sheer amount of time it took to travel places, there were so many […]

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