The mock-heroic style of writing is most apparent in Alexander Pope's works, especially in the Rape of the Lock. In the prosaic poem, Belinda, the protaganist, takes the cutting of a lock of her hair very badly. This was the price she had to pay for losing a card game. Pope is actually making fun of the people of his time, the Augustans, for elevating trivialities, through Belinda. Who would expect that this attitude would be prevalent as well 400 years later?!
I'm starting to think that it is a human characteristic but it still gets on the nerves, I feel. Sometimes people's anticipated production of homosapiens aren't achieved and this causes an adverse reaction in them but their wanting openness to uncontrollable factors and inevitablility hinders full acceptance and understanding. Well, I'm not going to fall prey to this attitude by getting all flustered over this. That would be defeating the purpose of this blog entry and backfiring on it.
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