This poem is the subject of "Miniaturizing, Modeling, and Mocking Ideas", the first chapter of Helen Vendler's Poets Thinking.
This poem is the subject of "Miniaturizing, Modeling, and Mocking Ideas", the first chapter of Helen Vendler's Poets Thinking. In this poem, Vice is described as a monster whom when we become "familiar with her face / We first endure, then pity, then embrace." The subject of this poem is described as "Created half to rise, and half to fall'" and "The glory, jest, and riddle of the world". The first epistle of this poem concludes that in "spite of pride, in erring reason's spite / One truth is clear, Whatever (*) is, is right." This poem opens "Awake, my St. John! Leave all meaner things / To low ambition, and the pride of kings". Its most famous section commands: "Know thyself and presume not God to scan", before explaining what is "The proper study of mankind". For 10 points, name this poem about the place of human beings in the world by Alexander Pope.
This poem is the subject of "Miniaturizing, Modeling, and Mocking Ideas", the first chapter of Helen Vendler's Poets Thinking.
{Essay on Man}