1. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.
(a) Sol through white curtains shot a timorous ray,
And opened those eyes that must eclipse the day:
No lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake:
(b) Know further yet: whoever fair and chaste
Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced.
For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease
Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.
(c) Oft, when the world imagine women stray,
The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way,
Through all the giddy circle they pursue,
And old impertinence expel by new.
(d) To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note,
We trust th' important charge, the petticoat;
Oft have we known the seven-fold fence to fail,
Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale;
2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.
(a) Whatever spirit, careless of his charge,
His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins,
Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins;
(b) O thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate,
Too soon dejected, and to soon elate.
Sudden, these hounours shall be snatched away,
And cursed for ever this victorious day.
(c) Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend the affirighted skies.
Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast,
When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;
(d) For, the sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew,
And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew,
Umbirel, a dusky, melancholy sprite,
As ever sullied the fair face of light,
3. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.
(a) Gods! shall the ravisher display your hair,
While the Fobs envy, and the Ladies stare!
Honour forbid! At whose unrivalled shrine
Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign.
(b) "For ever curs'd be this detested day,
Which snatched my best, my favourite curl away!
Happy! ah ten times happy had I been,
If Hampton-Court these eyes had never seen!
(c) What moved my mind with youthful Lords to roam?
Oh had I stayed, and said my prayers at home!
'Twas this, the morning omens seemed to tell,
Thrice from my trembling hand the patch-box fell;
(d) When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be laid in dust.
This lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name.
4. 'The Rape of the Lock" As a Mock Epic
5. "The Rape of the Lock" As a Social Satire
6. Supernatural Elements in "The Rape of the Lock"
7. Reasons for the Popularity of "The Rape of the Lock"
8. Character Sketch of Belinda
(a) Sol through white curtains shot a timorous ray,
And opened those eyes that must eclipse the day:
No lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake:
(b) Know further yet: whoever fair and chaste
Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced.
For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease
Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.
(c) Oft, when the world imagine women stray,
The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way,
Through all the giddy circle they pursue,
And old impertinence expel by new.
(d) To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note,
We trust th' important charge, the petticoat;
Oft have we known the seven-fold fence to fail,
Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale;
2. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.
(a) Whatever spirit, careless of his charge,
His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins,
Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins;
(b) O thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate,
Too soon dejected, and to soon elate.
Sudden, these hounours shall be snatched away,
And cursed for ever this victorious day.
(c) Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend the affirighted skies.
Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast,
When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;
(d) For, the sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew,
And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew,
Umbirel, a dusky, melancholy sprite,
As ever sullied the fair face of light,
3. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.
(a) Gods! shall the ravisher display your hair,
While the Fobs envy, and the Ladies stare!
Honour forbid! At whose unrivalled shrine
Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign.
(b) "For ever curs'd be this detested day,
Which snatched my best, my favourite curl away!
Happy! ah ten times happy had I been,
If Hampton-Court these eyes had never seen!
(c) What moved my mind with youthful Lords to roam?
Oh had I stayed, and said my prayers at home!
'Twas this, the morning omens seemed to tell,
Thrice from my trembling hand the patch-box fell;
(d) When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be laid in dust.
This lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name.
4. 'The Rape of the Lock" As a Mock Epic
5. "The Rape of the Lock" As a Social Satire
6. Supernatural Elements in "The Rape of the Lock"
7. Reasons for the Popularity of "The Rape of the Lock"
8. Character Sketch of Belinda
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