Sylph

shown repeatedly throughout the poem, and supporting this alternate world are the sylphs. As the souls of former coquettes, the sylphs exist solely to

dong. Sprite, a speck, walked merrily while Sunnyshard, watched his lovely mane sway sexily in the wind. Sprite laughed at god while he touched Sylph’s bootyful nose, swishing it, she transformed into a nutella jar pony. “RINGO AHHHHHHH!” screamed Sylph ( now Ringo ). Ringo’s plot rises into the face of Sprite, to seduce him. Sprite sniffs Ringo’s colossal anus. “Woah, Golly, what kind of flavour you gassin’?” Sprite asked. Ringo edged ever so closer into Sprite’s face. “Oh Sprite, it’s so warm” Ringo

Until Madge reaches into the cauldron pulls a diaphanous, magic scarf from its depth. Then the cauldron sinks, the witches scatter and a lovely glade in revealed. While on the other hand in the woods, James and the Sylph played around romantically. To entertain James, the Sylph summons her ethereal sisters who shyly enter and perform their airy dances. Until James tries to join in before all flees for another part of the forest. Meanwhile the farmers set out to look for James and when they got

My name is Bridget, which means power and virtue. I come from the land of Saint Columba. I assume that you know of Saint Columba, being that you are of Roman Catholic descent. I am a sylph, but I differ from the sylphs who have current charge over you. Before I was a sylph, I was a human of the female kind. I lived in a place called Kildare. I was very beautiful with my long, wavy, red hair. And, I was the desire of many clansmen. However, I held onto my chastity and rarely

beauty over brains. This mock epic satirizes not only sylphs, but also satirizes a woman’s ability to think logically than emotionally. The Rape of Lock is considered to be a mock epic, because the length is not only long, but has a series of events which include introducing a young girl sleeping till noon to a Lord of high ranks stealing the shiny hair of her head. The mock epic satirizes how hair is worth more than a

to happen, yet focus upon mundane items indicate the lack of higher authority they possess. When Ariel commands the Sylphs to their posts, he fails to recognize the protection of Belinda’s heart and soul and instead focuses on her earrings and watch. Pope satirizes the importance of virginity and purity the Catholic church teaches by belittling the power of

Students often read John Milton’s works with great difficulty; he is determined to have his audience know his goals and how important his writing is through epic metaphors and masterful language. In Paradise Lost, he tells his audience that this will the epic to end all epics and that this is the most important tale of all mankind: the fall of Man. Comparatively, Alexander Pope used the same style of epic not to tell an important tale, but to question much of the life of aristocracy in his time.

In “ The Rape of the Lock “ the poem starts off with Belinda,the main character, in a dream sent to her by her guardian Sylph. The dream sends a message to Belinda that she must be careful with all men in her life once she has received the message she awakens to a love letter at her sight and forgets the dream in its entirety. Throughout the course of the poem Belinda’s Sylphs are required to protect her chastity and help her contain her purity.. The man in her life is using her as an item and

swords and spears. There are single fight between Belinda and Baron and between Clarissa and Sir Plume. Another vital element of an epic is the active participation of supernatural machinery like god and goddesses. In The Rape of the Lock, there are sylphs and gnomes. These aerial spirits are small and insignificant things and are therefore, exactly in keeping with the triviality of the

strong sense of morals, intelligence and strength, the satirical aspect in mock epics come from the protagonist’s absence of these qualities. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, Belinda is depicted as a relatively fragile and shallow woman. In Canto 1, the Sylph that whispers in her ear defines her as one with “infant thought.” In Canto 2, her shallowness is displayed through her choice to adorn “a sparkling cross,” suggesting