LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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his use of the heroic couplet.
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an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.
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a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.
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a radical questioning of revealed religion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ans: In this line the poet says that man is the great lord of all things, he has mastered all material things, yet he falls prey to these very things. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Detailed explanation-2: -Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Detailed explanation-3: -Like Milton, Pope emphasizes not only the weaknesses of man is general; but emphasizes the weakness of pride in particular. Man would, in his pride, have the pretension of examining and judging God’s ways.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pope argues that humanity should make a study of itself, and not debase the spiritual essence of the world with earthly science, since the two are diametrically opposed to one another: man should “presume not God to scan".