By Alexander Pope

Presentation By Asma Naeem

and Quratulain
 The Rape of the Lock is one of the most famous
English-language examples of the mock-epic.
 Pope based The Rape of the Lock on an actual
incident in which a British nobleman, Lord Petre,
cut off a lock of hair dangling tantalizingly from
the head of the beautiful Arabella Fermor.
Petre’s daring theft of the lock set off a battle
royal between the Petre and Fermor families.
John Caryll—a friend of Pope and of the warring
families—persuaded the great writer to pen a
literary work satirizing the absurdity and silliness
of the dispute. The result was one of the
greatest satirical poems in all of literature. In
writing the poem, Pope also drew upon ancient
classical sources—notably Homer’s great epics.
 The poem was originally published in a
shorter version, which Pope later revised.

The poem uses Supernatural machinery

The Pope used Heroic couplet and Iambic
pentameter
 The poem begins with Arabella reading
a letter from Pope.He writes why he
has sent the poem to her and that also
he has dedicated it to her
 Pope says that the subject of the poem
is unimportant but that if he writes a
successful poem on the subject,he will
get high praise.
 The opening of the poem follows the
epic manner in its invocation to the
Muse