ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The most significant later mock-heroic poems were by Alexander Pope. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a noted example of the Mock-Heroic style; indeed, Pope never deviates from mimicking epic poetry such as Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid .

Detailed explanation-2: -The Rape of the Lock was written by Alexander Pope and first published in 1712, then reworked and published again in 1714. The poem is a mock-epic that satirizes the upper-class in London at the time. The story focuses on the central character, Belinda, whose lock of hair is cut off at a social gathering.

Detailed explanation-3: -mock-epic, also called mock-heroic, form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject.

Detailed explanation-4: -Famous English examples of mock-heroic poems include Dryden’s 1682 “Mac Flecknoe, ” which takes on a satirical dressing down of the poet Thomas Shadwell. Other examples include Alexander Pope’s “Rape of the Lock, ” published in 1712, and his later “The Dunciad, ” issued in 1728.