Trivia Questions related to the poem
- What planet has two moons named after characters from The Rape
of the Lock? (Bonus question: which two moons/characters?)
- In the poem, the Baron represents Robert, seventh Lord Petre. What
other famous English poem is connected with the Petre family?
- Who said "There are two ways of disliking poetry. One is not to
like it, and the other is to read Pope"?
- (contributed by a reader) What famous twentieth-century poem
originally contained a section parodying "The Rape of the
Lock"? Why was the section removed from the poem?
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