Pope’s Attitude toward Women & Men As Fashionable in “The Rape of the Lock”
The epigram of Martial prefixed to the poem implies that Pope wrote: “The Rape of the Lock” to heal the rancor of a lady named Mrs. Arabella Fermor. Yet to praise a lady for her charms or console her over the loss of a lock of hair in the simplest terms was not Pope’s sole object or … Read more