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Canto I

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems. Princeton University, 1906. EBook.

· All parenthetical citations within the guide refer to the lines of the poem from which the quotations are taken.

· The poem is titled as “an heroi-comical poem” followed by a note to Mrs. Arabella Fermor.

· Pope writes Mrs. Fermor that his poem was written to give young ladies a humorous story.

· The poem was published without his permission, and he has now rewritten it using the device of machinery.

· Machinery refers to the part that deities, angels, or demons play in a poem.

· His machines are based on the Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits.

· According to the Rosicrucians, the four elements are inhabited by spirits known as sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders.

· The gnomes or demons of Earth are mischievous.

· The...

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