Death of a Salesman

             The differences between eighteenth-century literature and
             romantic poems, with respect to history is constituted here. This is
             seen through the influential works of John Keats and Alexander Pope.
             These works are acknowledged as, "The Rape of Lock" and "The Eve of
             St. Agnes." Alexander Pope takes his readers on a hatred filled epic.
             A robust piece of literature and love induced psychoses in, "The Rape
             of Lock." On the other hand, "The Eve of St. Agnes" told a tale of
             life, love, death, and eternal fate in heaven. These two brilliant
             writers have given two magnificent poems. Pope exhibits many
             characteristics of a narcissistic human being. His independence in
             life shows through his writings in fiction. Which inevitably portray
             his deeper feelings of life. Popes' efforts here are of outezding
             quality. However, his poem did fail to convince Arabella to résumé
             her engagement to Lord Petre. Most of Pope's efforts here were
             written with time. Now, Keats has romantically serenaded his reader
             with descriptive lust and desire, which can be compared with popes'
             efforts by the difference in eighteenth century literature and
             romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they portray to
             Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls,
             "An Hero-Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of
             worthlessness for common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the
             ever-popular Aeneas, are symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks
             (almost) G-D like throughout, "The Rape of Lock." Contrary to Keats,
             who is more down-to-earth with his sense of realism in his writings.
             In the beginning of Keats romantic premise to life in St. Agnes, all
             is cold. The opening sequence brings a sense of realism to this
             bitter cold scene. Cold owls, rabbit's, and numb fingers on a holy,
             "Beads man." The Beads man symbolizes...

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