Poetry analysis: The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope 4 Articles

by Kerry Michael Wood

Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock is, to use a heavyweight piece of critical innuendo, an absolute hoot from start to finish. The original version of 1712 contained only two cantos. It was so popular in London literary...read more

by John Devera

Alexander's poem, "The Rape of the Lock," is the finest example of the mock-epic ever written. It is written in glorious Heroic Couplets, rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter. But Pope is a master poet, so he is not restric...read more

by Krystle Hernandez

Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" is a social commentary on the eighteenth century elitist classes. The poem is set in Hampton Courts, where the beautiful, young aristocrat, Belinda, has arrived to play a game of ca...read more

by Dolores Moore

When looking in depth at this poem, all I can say is, "Thank God for the Romantics, Keats and Wordsworth et al. And even more gratitude is due to Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman." ...read more