【正确答案】正确答案：The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. The poem satirizes a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an incident recounted by Pope"s friend, John Caryll. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic Catholic families at a period in England when Catholicism was legally proscribed. Petre, lusting after Arabella, had cut off a lock of her hair without permission, and the consequent argument had created a breach between the two families. Pope wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to " comically merge the two. " He utilized the character Belinda to represent Arabella and introduced an entire system of " sylphs," or guardian spirits of virgins, a paxodic version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic. Pope" s poem mocks the traditions of classical epics: the abduction of Helen of Troy becomes here the theft of a lock of hair; the gods become minute sylphs; the description of Achilles " shield becomes one of Belinda" s petticoats. He also uses the epic style of invocations, lamentations , exclamations and similes, and in some cases adds parody to imitation by following the framework of actual speeches in Homer" s Iliad. Although the poem is extremely funny at times, Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile, and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply. As his introductory letter makes clear, women in that period were essentially supposed to be decorative rather than rational, and the loss of beauty was a serious matter. The humor of the poem comes from the tempest in a teapot of vanity being couched within the elaborate, formal verbal structure of an epic poem. The Rape of the Lock is written in heroic couplet, which is the form for nearly all Pope" s writings. Like other poems by Pope, The Rape of the Lock is marked by careful diction, precision of meaning, harmony of language and structure and a firm control of the form. It" s widely regarded as a brilliant work, one of the best mock epics in English literature.

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