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The Rape of the Lock is a humorous indictment
of the vanities and idleness of 18th-century high society. This poem was based on a real incident among families of Pope's
acquaintance, and intended the poem to cool the hot tempers between the two families. The verse form of the poem is the heroic
couplet, which consists of rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter lines. Pope’s couplets, however, do not fall into a strict
iamb but fall into a rich rhythmic variation. Pope’s Rape of the Lock is a mock epic that mocls society’s failures.
Pope underscores the ridiculousness of this society and conveys the society’s proportional loss of values where the
“trivial” is handled with the gravity and seriousness that ought to be given to more important issues.
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