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... illustrate the action , help characterize the speaker , and implement the moral . In placing so much emphasis on the " moral " of the epic , Pope was contributing to the epic tradition as he understood it . To him , the tradition was ...
... illustrate the action , help characterize the speaker , and implement the moral . In placing so much emphasis on the " moral " of the epic , Pope was contributing to the epic tradition as he understood it . To him , the tradition was ...
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... illustrate the point negatively : they both fail to find the mean between the extremes . The son , trying to avoid the father's extreme of niggardliness , “ mistook reverse of wrong for right " and ended his life a bankrupt out of zeal ...
... illustrate the point negatively : they both fail to find the mean between the extremes . The son , trying to avoid the father's extreme of niggardliness , “ mistook reverse of wrong for right " and ended his life a bankrupt out of zeal ...
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... illustrate it with portraits from the social or political scene . Pope also " imitated " by filling his lines with allusions from the earlier writers . This practice was not the mere copying of another poet ; it was the presentation of ...
... illustrate it with portraits from the social or political scene . Pope also " imitated " by filling his lines with allusions from the earlier writers . This practice was not the mere copying of another poet ; it was the presentation of ...
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