Alexander Popes An Essay On Man -- Alexander Pope An Essay On Man

horse parsley Popes An screen On Man black lovage Popes An audition On Man is generally accepted as a wonderfully harmonious mass of couplets that gather a variety of philosophic doctrines in an eclectic and (because of its philosophic nature) antithetic muddle. No critic denies that Popes turn out On Man is among the most beautifully written and best of his works, alone few also deny that Popes Essay On Man is an unlogical conglomeration of incongruous scraps (A Letter... 88) of philosophic axioms. In forming An Essay On Man into perhaps the sterling(prenominal) philosophical poem incessantly written, Pope masterfully incorporates allusions and metaphors in which to constrict a world of essence into the compact work that verse must(prenominal) be, in comparison to prose. Perhaps, then, Popes greatest flaw is that, because a work of philosophy must be tenacious and complete in order to be successful in most cases, An Essay On Man is too difficult to decipher because the coordinate and sequence of the work, as well as allusions and metaphors, while adding to the quality of verse, derogate the quality of the philosophical work. Popes only mistake in writing An Essay On Man is his attempt to fit too much discipline into such a compressed work. However, viewed as separate thoughts, the majority of passages in the Essay seem to hold true - not a rally and coherent truth, but an angular and splintered truth (De Quincey 224). As a philosophical argument represented in verse, the simplification of so many vary theories cannot be avoided. While the Essay lacks central doctrinal coherence, it still succeeds as a poem, even at the expense of its philosophy (Edwards 37). One must also recognize the greatness of the work itself, despite its lack of centra... ...ondsworth Penguin Books, 1971. 224. Edwards, Thomas. The powerful Maze An Essay on Man. Modern Critical Views Alexander Pope. Ed. Harold Bloom. bran-new York Chelsea House, 1986. 37-50. Hazli tt, William. From On Dryden and Pope. Penguin Critical Anthologies Alexander Pope. Eds. F.W. Bateson and N.A. Joukovsky. Harmondsworth Penguin Books, 1971. 197. Keener, Frederick. Introduction. An Essay on Pope. New York capital of South Carolina University Press, 1974. 8. Magill, Frank, ed. Critical Survey of Poetry Revised Edition. Vol. 6. Pasadena Salem Press, 1992. 2632-2635. Pope, Alexander. An Essay On Man. Ed. Maynard Mack. Twickenham Edition. London Methuen, 1950. Warton, Joseph. From An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. Penguin Critical Anthologies Alexander Pope. Eds. F.W. Bateson and N.A. Joukovsky. Harmondsworth Penguin Books, 1971. 111-115.