Line by Line critical analysis of Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (Line 41-80)

Line by Line critical analysis of Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (Line 41-80)



41-42
You must that there are unnumbered spirits are flying around you. This is the light militia of the lower sky.
43-44
This is unseen militia always flying and hovering over the box of the theater and around the Hyde park.
45-46
You must think that you have a escort in the air always protecting you and they look down upon two pages and a chair.
47-48
Just like you, our beings are of old time, once we were beautiful women.
49-50
And after a soft transition, we have become airy from earthly vehicles.
51-52
Don’t think that when the lives of women end, all her vanities also end.
53-54
They watch the vanities of the succeeding women with great regards even they play any role no longer, they watch other play.
55-56
The love of the women for fashionable chariot, and of Ombre continues even after their death.
57-58
When they die in their youth, they return to their original elements of which they were made.
59-60
The spirits of the fierce lady transform into fire and they take the name of Salamander.
61-62
The souls of the soft and yielding women transform into water, and instead of tea they sip water.
63-64
The souls of a woman of extreme nature, who tries to be a modest, go downward to become gnome, and remain always in search of a quarrel.
65-66
The souls of the flirting ladies go into the air and become sylphs and sport and flutter in the air. 
67-68
You should know further that whoever lady is fair and chaste, who rejects lovers is welcome by sylphs.
69-70
Nature behaves differently with spirits, they are free from human laws and they can assume any shape and sex whatever they like. 
71-72
What guards/protects the purity / chastity of the maidens in courtly balls and midnight dance parties?
73-74
Who safe the maidens from the daring advancement of treacherous friends, their staring at the day and whispering in the night.
75-76
When on some pleasing time, music and dancing fires softens their amorous feelings. 
77-78
Who protects the young maidens from the above mentioned incidents? They are their sylphs, wise celestials objects who protects them. Though the men below think that it is the honor of these ladies who saves them. 
79-80
There are some ladies who are too conscious of their beauty, they are predestined to the charge of gnomes.

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