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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 14 hours agoThis epic poem appears almost as a war against sexes. While women are groomed to be beautiful invalids, men are posed as endowed and manly. While this epic fight is using trinkets, snuff and bodkins, unlikely […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 14 hours agoPope continuously criticizes the superficiality and objective value of people, urging people to look deeper beyond the surface value of a person. In line 16, he states, “Unless good sense preserve what beauty […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 14 hours agoPope is criticizing how far people can reduce themselves when in dismay or chaos. Those who pray most are those who are in crisis, even if they are not religious. Pope is revealing the power mischief can create […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 14 hours agoPope frames this aspect of the Cave of Spleen with women who are so afflicted with leisure, that it has made them sick. While they are not revered as having a true medical disorder, terms such as vapor eludes to […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 15 hours agoDespite reflecting on the story of Scylla and her fate, the baron ignores this revealing how unalike their stories truly are, except for the untimely fate of the woman. Scylla sacrificed herself for her love while […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 15 hours agoIn reference to Queen Anne and her power over England, Ireland and Scotland, she is not free from trivial activities such as gossip, courtly judgements, and pettiness. By referencing the Queen, he asserts these […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 15 hours agoTrembling is a reoccurring term throughout the epic poem (I: 48, 128, II: 48, 142, III: 114, IV: 162). While Pope is using the format of an epic poem, his repetitive use of the term could be satirical, […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 day, 15 hours agoThe idea of love is so great, that he who wishes it is perceived as the protagonist, fighting to gain the beauty and power of love. However, in this case, it is prefaced by aggressive terms such as force, ravish, […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 3 days, 15 hours agoWhat isn’t clear to me here is the shift into “Bibles”, an element that doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the list or Canto 1 since there are more spiritual and Greek allusions present. While the Norton note […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 3 days, 15 hours agoWhat isn’t clear to me here is the significance of the two Pages and a Chair (sedan chair). While the image expressed I believe is referencing age lost, I do not understand the significance of the objects. Is this […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week agoMontagu uses anaphora and exaggeration at the end of the majority of sections, “beauty is fled,” to prove her point that she is no longer useful in society and should be exiled. This is reflected in line 16, where […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week agoMontague impresses upon the reader the countless hours dedicated to vanity and perfecting the female image for the patriarchy. While these worries are superficial, it reveals how women were reduced to their image […]
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Elisabeth Small commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 1 day agoHe is embarrassed to not be an apex predator any longer. He reflects on the Lilliputs who he thought was below him figuratively and literally.
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