Comparison of Popes The rape of the Lock and Swifts A Modest Proposal

Although Alexander Popes, The cosset of the Lock, and Jonathan Swifts A Modest purpose are both witty satires, they differ on their style, intention, and pettishness. To begin, in The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope uses satire to invoke a capricious, melancholy mood to illustrate the absurdity of fighting everyplace the cutting of ones hair. Hidden at bottom this poem is a crafty criticism of the society that helps create the crisis over the stolen lock. A Society in which appearances ere more important to a soulfulnesss sense of identity, and treats the insignificant with utmost importance. The very title of this mock- heroical go aways the audience a clue, the word rape and all its implications bring to point a heinous crime of violation.Pope chose to utilize the heroic duet to trivialize this mock- epic But when to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they come about it instruments of ill (3. 53-54). He also employs in many instances, historic allusions to give the poem a serious feel Fear the just Gods, and gestate of Scyllas fate changd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, she dearl...