Neoclassicism II
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1. Can you rephrase Pope’s words to clarify the meaning of each line?
What dire offence from am’rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,
I sing This verse to Caryll, Muse! is due:
This, ev’n Belinda may vouchsafe to view:
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise,
If She inspire, and He approve my lays.
Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel
A well-bred Lord t’ assault a gentle Belle?
O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor’d,
Could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?
In tasks so bold, can little men engage,
And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty Rage?
2. Read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” How can you tell that the essay is a piece of satire? Which clues in the essay reveal Swift’s true opinion on the matter?
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