Following The Rape of the Lock. Popes attempts were directed toward a manner of composing with which he is non normally identified: the elegiac verses Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady and the romantic psychodrama. Eloisa to Abelard.
The Elegy is. possibly. merely partly successful ; its main involvement lies in the poets vacillation between a Christian and a Stoic apprehension of the ladys decease. Eloisa to Abelard is another affair wholly. G. Wilson Knight claims that it is surely Popes greatest human verse form and likely the greatest short love verse form in our language—a judgement from which few critics are likely to disassociate themselves.
In the signifier of an epistle to her beloved and banished Abelard. Popes Eloisa dramatically expresses the psychological tensenesss which threaten her ground and split her psyche. Confined to a monastery
...( ironically founded by Abelard ) . she receives.
at length. a missive from her former lover that reawakens her suppressed passion. ( Retrieved from hypertext transfer protocol: //rpo. library. utoronto. ca/poem/1630.
hypertext markup language ) The recrudescence of these feelings non merely threatens her stableness. but besides. in her ain appraisal. endangers her psyche ; and her state of affairs is rendered even more affecting by the fact that Abelard.
holding been castrated by confederates in the employ of her indignant uncle. can neither react to nor portion in her battles against the flesh. Here the pair is used non merely ironically to counterweight discordant images. as in The Rape of the Lock. but besides to reflect.
in balanced antitheses. the very battles of Eloisas psyche. ( Damrosch. p101 )In the extravagancy of her affliction. Eloisa
takes on the properties of a Shelleyan heroine.
preferring damnation with Abelard to redemption without him: In seas of fire my plunging psyche is drowned. / While communion tables blaze. and angels tremble unit of ammunition. Even as she submits to the edicts of Heaven and composes herself to run into her shaper. she erotically mingles her love for Abelard with her battle for redemption: Thou Abelard! the last sad office wage. / And smooth my transition to the kingdoms of twenty-four hours.
/ See my lips tremble. and my orbs roll. / Suck my last breath. and catch my winging psyche! Eloisa to Abelard belies the impression that Pope was incapable of composing in the hapless manner. As Lord Byron observed.
If you search for passion. where is it to be found stronger than in Eloisa to Abelard. ( Baines. p89 ) Between Eloisa to Abelard and An Essay on Man. Pope composed a preliminary version of The Dunciad ( 1728 ) .
but it was non until 1742 that the verse form appeared in its concluding signifier.Mentions:Baines. Paul. The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope. New York: Routledge.
2000. p89.Damrosch. Leopold. Jr. The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope.
Berkeley: University of California Press. 1987. p101.
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