ENGL 1410 Lecture Notes - Hyperbole, Pebre, Mock-Heroic
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What dire offence from am"rous causes springs, (mocking everyone) I sing -- this verse to c---, muse! is due; muse is inspiration. This, ev"n belinda may vouchfafe to view: belinda is another name for arrabella . Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, -arrabella is dreaming in her room, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. She is a socialite; she s showing a false. Say what strange motive, goddess! cou"d compel hood [not real]-makeup is her veil- narcissistic tendency; worshiping herself. Oh say what stranger cause, yet unexplor"d,in 2nd canto talking about baron (tokens of. )-by saying he is worshiping the woman it is a profanity, shouldn t be doing that. And dwells such rage in softest bosoms then?sex isn t openly talked about. Sol thro" white curtains shot a tim"rous ray,-she has to guard her reputation.
