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"The Rape of the Lock" is a brilliant mock-epic poem by Alexander Pope. This paper explains an interpretation of the poem and presents details on the life of Pope, showing how he became a satirist. This paper also goes into the style of Pope's poem and the satire in "The Rape of the Lock."

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"This poem is done in such a way, however, that is encompasses more than just that mere event of the cutting of a lock of hair; it cuts through to things that really matter.
"Along with 'mighty-trivial' we need other pairs of contraries - for instance, 'heroic-effete,' 'primitive-sophisticated,' 'antique-contemporary,' 'masculine-feminine,' 'principled-opportunistic,' 'dramatic-historic'" (Cunningham 17). These contrasts exist throughout the poem and help to give it more meaning than if it were just about the single incident involving Miss Fermor."

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