Discuss Alexander Pope's 'The Rape Of The Lock' as a 'Mock Heroic Poem'.

One of the finest examples of mock heroic poetry in the English language was composed after John Caryll, a friend of Pope's, informed the poet of an incident regarding two land owning, Catholic families, the Petres & the Fermors. The young lord Petre had cut off a lock of hair from the fashionable society lady Arabella Fermor, and both she and her family had taken offence. Caryll suggested that Pope should 'write a poem …

…amp;gt;<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/> References: Gordon, I (2001) The Literary Encyclopedia, Alexander Pope: WWW.LitEncy.com. Pope, A (1714) The Rape of the Lock. Pope, A (1711) Essay on Criticism. Sanders, A (2004) The Short Oxford History of English Literature, 3rd ed: Oxford: <Tab/>Oxford University Press.