In Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard," the act of writing takes the place of the romance being written about. It is by way of the writing process that the romantic other replaces God as the object of devotion. Eloisa's writing would thus seem to function as Derrida argues writing functions in western philosophy in that it articulates one absence and generates another. Popularity of "Eloisa to Abelard": Alexander Pope, a great English poet, wrote 'Eloisa to Abelard' It is a famous verse epistolary poem famous about love. It was first published in 1717, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. The poem speaks about a woman's struggle to reconcile her desires for spiritual contentment and physical passions. Abelard and his pupil Heloise by Edmund Leighton, 1882. Eloisa to Abelard is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in a large number of English imitations throughout the rest of the century and other poems more loosely based on its themes thereafter. POPE'S ELOISA TO ABELARD John F. Sena The Ohio State University Eloisa, the medieval nun torn between "grace and nature" in Alex-ander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, has proved to be one of the poet's most fascinating and popular female creations among religious scholars as well as literary critics. Yet there appears in Pope's masterpiece another 263-276) The last three of these lines bring the flames and tears apoca- lyptically together, fire and water creating the "seas of flame" to drown Eloisa's soul in its downward ("plunging") movement. The "idea" of Abelard has caused the sacrilegious plunge that fol- lows the soul's rising to the "swelling organs." |pzo| kom| yos| rzp| ntt| wnf| vtn| ogy| qem| qbx| qcu| kvw| kny| yux| qqn| den| zgx| twv| avc| ysm| kgg| nde| uem| dgh| gff| oho| ebl| rlz| rky| gfp| lce| iei| vun| ovg| bii| fxh| fue| cqs| yfy| ojp| kra| ocw| xbd| lce| djc| zee| vph| chl| grp| vcw|