Pope's Poems and Prose

Rape of the lock

In The Rape of the Lock, an allusion to a Greek epic is: a. “AT OMBRE SINGLY TO DECIDE THEIR DOOM.” b. “O THOUGHTLESS MORTALS! EVER BLIND TO FATE.” c. “THE SUN OBLIQUELY SHOOTS HIS BURNING RAY.” d. “WHERE THAMES WITH PRIDE SURVEYS HIS RISING TOWERS.”
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B - Fate was what the Greeks believed controlled their destiny. They could not avoid their Fate, even though every Greek hero tried to avoid that Fate!

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