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  1. By Alexander Pope. In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in a vestal's veins? Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat? Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat? Yet, yet I love!—From Abelard it came, And Eloisa yet must kiss the name.

  2. Sep 2, 2023 · Eloisa to Abelard (1717) is a poem by Alexander Pope. It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th-century story of Héloïse 's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard , perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris, and the brutal vengeance that her family exacts when they castrate him, even ...

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  4. Sep 5, 2023 · Outside of the literary elements found in the poem, the important quotes lie in Eloisas tormenting choice: mortal love or spiritual eternity. Nor envy them, that heav'n I lose for thee....

  5. “Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain” ― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard. tags: mortality. 76 likes. Like. “The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!” ― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard. 56 likes. Like. “How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

    • Alexander Pope
    • 1965
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  7. Eloisa to Abelard is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in a large number of English imitations throughout the rest of the century and other poems more loosely based on its themes thereafter.

  8. Pope's Eloisa effectively removes Abelard from the scene, even as she be-. gins by reminding him of her often-stated objections to matrimony. She writes, instead, a stirring manifesto on the joys of free love, proclaiming her apostasy against laws and social customs and embracing the joys of illicit passion.

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