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Quotes from Epistle I An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope. Epistle I, Verse I Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God or thee? Epistle I, Verse II Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find, Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? Then in the scale of reasoning life 'tis plain.
The first of these epistles appeared in 1733. Pope, being apparently nervous on his first appearance as a philosopher, withheld his name. The other parts followed in the course of 1733 and 1734, and the authorship was soon avowed. The Essay on Man is Pope's most ambitious performance, and the one by which he was best known beyond his own country.
Pope's purpose in this poem is to vindicate the ways of God to man. Like Milton, Pope faces the problem of the existence of evil in a world presumed to be the creation of a good God. Tho ugh the poem is didactic, it is richly musical and is distinguished by subtly beautiful visual imagery. It is an affirmative poem. Hope is the process of the poem in which it paves little by little into faith.
AN ESSAY ON MAN by Alexander Pope THE AUTHOR Alexander Pope (1688-1744), known among his many enemies as the Malignant Dwarf of Twickenham, was born into a Catholic family in the year of the Glorious Revolution. It was not a good time to be a Catholic in England; both the universities and the leading occupations were.
The purpose of this research is to examine the first eighteen lines of Epistle II of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man. The plan of the research will be to set forth the fundamental argument of the piece, and then to discuss how the logic of the argument develops, with reference to the historical and cultural context that helps the poet reach and make meanings.
An Essay on Man was written by Alexander Pope in 1733-34 and was published anonymously. The Essay presents a contradictory situation through which Pope steers the readers between the new age of mathematical and scientific certainty and that of the older traditional ecclesiastic faith.
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