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