Pope
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
"Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;"
Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n,
Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav'n."
~ Alexander Pope, excerpt from "Eloisa to Abelard"
Anyone who recognizes this might also know about the movie Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. I was browsing about the Net and came across this website that talks about the poem in relation to the movie. http://www.jamesbowman.net/reviewDetail.asp?pubID=1508
According to this site, spotless means "without moral stain". Is it possible to be free from guilt and blame if one has no memory of the bad deed? The movie tends to focus more on the love story between Joel and Clementine than it does on the moral, ethical, and philosophical aspects of the procedure. By the way, would this procedure be ethical? Just throwing that into the air for whoever wants to catch it.
Speaking of Alexander Pope, are there any other mock-epics like "The Rape of the Lock" out there that I am not aware of, or are there any in class that we discussed and just flew past my head? One more thing, as Porfessor Kuin has said, Pope's heroic couplets are well polished. Indeed they are. Though Pope's poems are very long, they all have a nice rhythm to them. I wonder why we're not reading Pope's version of The Iliad.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
"Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;"
Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n,
Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav'n."
~ Alexander Pope, excerpt from "Eloisa to Abelard"
Anyone who recognizes this might also know about the movie Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. I was browsing about the Net and came across this website that talks about the poem in relation to the movie. http://www.jamesbowman.net/reviewDetail.asp?pubID=1508
According to this site, spotless means "without moral stain". Is it possible to be free from guilt and blame if one has no memory of the bad deed? The movie tends to focus more on the love story between Joel and Clementine than it does on the moral, ethical, and philosophical aspects of the procedure. By the way, would this procedure be ethical? Just throwing that into the air for whoever wants to catch it.
Speaking of Alexander Pope, are there any other mock-epics like "The Rape of the Lock" out there that I am not aware of, or are there any in class that we discussed and just flew past my head? One more thing, as Porfessor Kuin has said, Pope's heroic couplets are well polished. Indeed they are. Though Pope's poems are very long, they all have a nice rhythm to them. I wonder why we're not reading Pope's version of The Iliad.