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Alexander Pope’s *The Rape of the Lock* is considered one of the finest examples of a mock-epic in English literature. Written in 1712 and later revised, the poem satirizes a trivial incident in aristocratic society, where Lord Petre cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair without her consent. Pope elevates this social squabble to the grandeur of epic tradition, using classical conventions to mock both the triviality of the event and the pretensions of fashionable high society in the early eighteenth century. The poem’s brilliance lies in its parody of epic structures and devices, while simultaneously reflecting the wit and elegance of Augustan poetry. One of the hallmarks of the epic is its invocation of the muse, and Pope begins his poem in this way, parodying the solemnity of great works like Homer’s ________ ______ ___ ___ _____.
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