why does alexander pope use the style and narrative form of epics to describe a relatively insignificant incident in “the rape of the lock”?
to mock the epic form, which was popular among the upper class
to mock society for attaching too much importance to trivial things
to mock the foolish acts committed by young gentlemen in love
to mock the vanity and pride of upper-class young women like belinda

Alexander Pope used the style and narrative form of epics in The Rape of the Lock to mock society for attaching too much importance to trivial things.

He wanted to make light of the matter and cool hot tempers based on a real life incident that happened amongst his acquaintances.

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the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.