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Pope Essay on Man _Human Project

Pope Essay on Man _Human Project

Q After many readings, I am still stung by this masterpiece. I only ask you to read and ponder enough of it to spur a key idea about which you would like to write in a one-page response. Again, these are your thoughts I wish to read, provoked by Pope's writing. You don't have to agree with him, nor do you have to speak a position of which I agree. Personally, I find this piece intriguing because of all the ways he describes human nature as a tension between two opposites--sometimes every couplet introduces yet another dual aspect of the human spirit that creates a struggle in our understanding of life. This essay will be read only by me (unless you choose to distribute it to your classmates).

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After reading Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Man” I feel that it is too idealistic. There are few ideas presented by him that I don’t agree with him not because he is wrong but because the relevance of his ideas cannot be traced in today’s world. Fe of the ideas presented by him in this essay are—firstly, that there is a God of infinite wisdom;