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- In order to love Abelard, she cannot give herself completely over the church. As she goes to take her vows, Eloisa cannot refrain from looking at her love: Not on the Cross my eyes were fix'd, but you. Although she is supposed to be looking at her heavenly father, she cannot look away from her mortal love.
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Abelard to Eloisa (1725) by "Petrus Abelardus" [Richard Barford], "wherein we may observe, how high we can raise the sentiments of our heart, when possess'd of a great deal of wit and learning, with a most violent love." Abelard to Eloisa, in answer to Mr Pope's Eloisa to Abelard (1725) by James Delacour(t).
- Alexander Pope
- 1965
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 ...
Give all thou canst—and let me dream the rest. Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God. Ah, think at least thy flock deserves thy care, Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r.
mains unswervingly constant to her aim.7 Pope's Eloisa, in other words, carries out the project Hughes's Heloise outlines: "Let me always meditate on your Calamities, let me publish them thro' the World ... to shame an Age that has not known how to value you. I will spare no one."8 In Eloisa to Abelard , Pope
The world forgetting, by the world forgot; Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. The title Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind comes from these lines. Mary Svevo quotes Alexander Pope's poem in Eloisa to Abélard during Joel's procedure.
- Michel Gondry
Sep 5, 2023 · Lorna Stowers. | Certified Educator. Last Updated September 5, 2023. Quotes in poetry tend to function differently than quotes in most literary texts. Yet, Alexander Pope's poem "Eloisa to...
When Eloisa thinks of Abelard’s name, she contemplates that it cannot “pass these lips in holy silence seal’d” (Line 10). Eloisa’s confinement to the convent means that she is sealed away from communicating with Abelard.
