| Dr. Johnson remarked about Alexander Pope that “If Pope be not found, where is poetry to be found?” Pope is a satirist poet of 18th Century. His “The Rape of the Lock” is Pope first satire. It is a social satire as well as a mockheroic epic. Here, pope mocks at the “little unguarded follies” of the fair sex, and at the artificial social life of 18th Century London as a whole. The fashion, the artificiality, the vanity, and frivolity of the age is exposed. In order to satire, Pope uses different means of mock-epic conventions. He uses supernatural machineries like Sylphs, Nymphs, Gnomes and evil spirits. |